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GENERAL
JAPANESE GAS WARFARE
WARFARE CONFIRMED
USE OF DEADLY WEAPON VOLUME OF WAR CHINA'S HEROIC
ON WUHAN FEARED ANNIVERSARY STRUGGLE BEING
TOLD IN SONG
Chinese Officer Addresses
Hong Kong Y's Men's Club
Definite confirmation thaj the Japanèse have been engaging la xas warfare against the Chinese was given by Colonel Edward Z. Fang, assistant director of the Gas Defence Department of the Chin- ese Ministry of War, when he spoke on gas attacks at the front at a tiffin meeting of the Hong Kong Y's Men's Club at the St. Francis Holt yesterday.
Talerchwang.
MESSAGES
"China Undaunted" Is A Valuable
Anthology..
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This
Wuhan Choral Group Coming To Colony
A group of 4 young Chin- ese patriots of both sexes have quit their jobs to make their way around the world and sell In song of the heraie struggle Ching is waging against the Japanese Invaders.
The Wuhan Songsters, a' choral group under the direction of Mr. Ha Chi-chau, will be coming to the Colony, where they will give con- certs in co-operation with the local relief organisations.
"Our road is clear: will fight to. the end!" statement by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is typical of the spirit shown by China's military and civil leaders in their speeches and articles on the occasion of the first an- niversary of the outbreak of war on July 7, a collection of which has been made and issued by the China Informa- tion Committee, Hankow, with the title. "China Undaunted."
Miss Edith Chu, graduate of The clear aim with which
Columbia University and principal China rose 10 mect Japan's of a Wuhan girls' middle school; challenge is vividly presented in a broadcast address by the General-the Group will arrive in a few is now in Hong Kong... The rest of issimo, whose appeal to the friend- to the League of Nationa?.. Appeally Powers and message of ad- days.
"Have the Japanese launched 'gas | Hstang-Kung-Miao, attacks on our troops? The papers Matang. Kluktang. Slingtse 0% reported more than 40 or 50 oc- Scarlet Lake, they invariably used castons, and most of them have gas to score a disgraceful. victory. been confumed," said Colonel Fang. "A couple of times in West Shang- hal, once or twice in Shens: a few times near Taferehwang and many; times along the lower Yangtse.
"I am sure you must have read about the news of the Japanese using gas again in Singtse just a tew days ago, and at Scarlet Lake the day before yesterday....
When we scored our victory at Talerchwang and the Japan- ese retreated, we found thou- sands of gas grenades left on the battlefield by the Japanese troops. We caught them red: handed.
with
"Besides, reports of their con taminating drinking water food poisons. and mixing poisons with salt and cigarettes have also been received
MUSTARD GAS USED
very
"The Japanese used some lung Injurants in Shanghat and likely at Scarlet Lake. On one oc- casion, they used mustard gas, the worst of the blistering category as was witnessed by Dr. Ettinger technical expert sent by the League of Nations, in the case of three of the victims from the 87th and 67th Divisions. But or most, occasions, they used stimulants, that is to 68y, tear and sneezing gases, to de- moralise and Incapacitate
soldiers.
Dur
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they failed to point like Lotien,
take o Sze-
strategic
As the seige of Wuhan is getting closer and closer, and the resistance we put up is 90 strong, there is very little doubt they will frequently resort to this inhuman weapon.
FORBIDDEN IN PACT "What should China do? Plead
to the International Court? This monition to the Japanese people. is totally futile. The prohibition or the use of gas was written black and white on the Hague Pact twice. the first time in 1899 and the second in 1907.
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Those who have seen the picture.
as well is hig speech to theThe Doomed Battalion," will re- People's Political Council at its call the stirring singing therein. Inaugural meeting. reveal the It was the Wuhan Songsters who sincerity. good sense and honesty were being heard.
Plans are being
of purpose that characterise.made so that the Wuhan Songsters Canina's man of destiny.
will appear at a Special showing jof the same Alm.
"But what of that? Germans used it against the Allies only eight
SOME OF THE CONTENTS- years after the Pact was signed;}
The collection also contains, a sinjans, and the Japanese are using nation by Italians used it against the Abys-review: of the finances of the Dr. H. H. Kung." an
it against us. What we need is appeal to Third Powers for positive adequate equipment, gas masks. measures against the aggressor by gas-proof clothing. And anti-gas Dr. Wang Chung-hut, a survey of mouthpads and gas-proof goggles the domestic situation by General Kong do help.".
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The
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following arrived in Hong yesterday from America. Ho Chien, an analysis and eluci-Japan and Shanghai by the Em- dation at the programme of de-press of Russia:-- centralised economic resources by Mr.
Ma Yin-chu various other
CHINA'S HONOUR Colonel Fang said that the Chin- |
Dr. J. G. Bowman. Mr. T. Bow-. ese Government was taking, every messages touching on important Mr. G. L. Ellas, Mr. Albert Moore, man. Col. and Mrs. G. C. Gowlland, defensive measure possible, and in aspects of the resistance plan and Mr. Samuel Moore, Mr. A. S. Miller. some arsenals excellent gas masks the manifesto are being produced for use by the People's Political Counell
issued by the Captair. T. D. Martin,
troops.
Which
is the forerunner of the future Lt. Cdr. C. B. McVay. Lt. Cdr. Chinese parliament.
J. B. O'Neill, Mr. M. Silverstein.
"Why does China not use Cas also?" asked the speaker. Well printed land arranged in Mrs. E. Sargent. Miss M. Sargent. "China is a signatory to the the handy and popular "digeat" Mrs. J., D. Woldt, Master Woldt, Hague Pact, and she wants to
size, the volume should form a Miss Eve West. Mrs. M. J Young, keep her credit. If she wins necessary part of any library of the war, which we
information are con-
On Sino-Japanese fident she will, she wants to win it honourably."
The meeting was presided over by Mr. Peter. H. Sin. Mr. Wesley
half of the Club,
NEW ECONOMIC Thom thanked the speaker on be
JOURNAL
To Be Published Next Month
Of interest to the business community will be the publica- tion, on September 1 of the Far Eastern Economic and Commercial Journal, the editor of which is Mr. Walter Han ming Chen, who was for many years associated with the edi torial department of the North China Daily News.
AIR JOURNEY SHORTENED
Travellers by air who leave Hong Kong for Bangkok by Im- pertal Airways planes on Tuesdays and Fridays will be interested to know that on Wednesdays and Saturdays a plane of the "Flying Dutchman" service departs from Bangkok for Australia.
Thus, the journey from Hong Kong to Brisbane or Sydney can be accomplished in four and a
Apart from a number of messages half days. of greeting from Chinese Cabinet Ministers are a number of excep tionally interesting articles, which include "Applied Science In China," by Prot. C. A. Middleton-Smith; "Commercial Practice in Chinaa
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LORD HARLECH'S ESTATE" the interested parties for an early JUNKS ATTACKED Sze Ken Yue, Mr. M. P. Tang, Mrs.
Unsettled estate valued at Tsiu Bux Hus, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. £74,931 (np. £63,534)
was left Woo, Mr. K. P. Wu, Mr. C. C. Wen, by Lord Harlech, of Brogyntyn, Mr. K. Y. Woo,
Oswestry, who died at the age of Mr. K. Y. Wang, Mrs. T. S. Yen. 83. He gave £40,000 upon trust Mr. Y. D. Yen, Miss Y. Y. Yen, for his wife for fe, £2.000 and Master C. D. Yen, Mrs. Yuan and effects to the value of £2,000 to
Bix cases of cholera. four cases
Foochow, August 25. Beventeen Chinese Junks off the
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The cholera total is now 369 cases. (Central' News)."
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Chengchow, August 25.
In a surprise night attack on Tuesday, Chinese forcer ta-occupied Lino station. six kilometres east of Talaotso on the Tackon-Chinghna Eallway in north Horan.
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