TOLL OF WAR

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20507, 25 May 1938, Page 7

TOLL OF WAR

200,000 CASUALTIES eO.OOO CHINESE KILLED THE FIGHTING AROUND HANCHOW United Press Assn.—Elec. Te!. Copyright Received May 23, li a.m-) TOKIO, May 2i An Imperial Army headquarters (’•uiiiiiiini«|iie slal»s that investigations suggest that the ijunese suffered 21M1.0U0 casti iltie" around Hancliow, including •',«!. ODD killed. General Siisfyainu lias informed the 20 Chinese divisions are encircled. CHINESE WITHDRAWAL WEARING DOWN JAPANESE COSTLY OCCUPATION OF CITY • United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received May 25, 11 a.m.) HONGKONG, May 2 i Marshal Chiang Kai-shek will withdraw from Suchow, in accordance with | Ihe policy of weuirng down the Jap- i anese by exhaustion and retaining | Chinese initiative. The occupation of llsuchow is extremely costly to Japan, who have insufficient men to entrap the Chinese. GERMAN ADVISERS RECALLED FROM CHINA DESIRE TO BE NEUTRAL (United Tress Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, May 21 The German Ambassador to China, hr. Oskar Truutmann, said to-day that Germany had recalled her military advisers from China because she was anxious to be strictly neutral in the Far East, says a message from Reuter's correspondent at Hankow. The Rod Cross mission which arrived from Germany two months ago is also leavingChinese military circles hint that lh*» German advisers may not be permitted to leave owing to the possibility that they might convey war secrets to Japan, says the Hankow correspondent of the British United Press. Sweeping down from Inner Mongolia, Chinese forces captured Changping. 25 miles north-west of Peking, asserts a message from Hankow. Fighting continues along the Lunghai railway west of llsuchow.