THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 10, 1988.
New Chemical Warfare
Menace Alleged Planned QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
In Southern Shantung
Shanghai, To-day.
In glaring headlines, local vernacular papers alleg- ed that the Japanese are preparing to resort to chemical warfare and that specially trained units are on their way to Southern Shantung.
THE PAPERS DECLARE THAT THESE UNITS ARRIVED RE- CENTLY ÁT TSINGTAO FROM JAPAN WITH LARGE QUANTITIES OF GAS BOMBS.
Chinese soldiers fighting in the front line, it is reported, are carrying gas-masks.
now
In spite of denials by Japanese
SUNRISE RAID
military spokesmen here, it is learn- COMPELS C.G.
ed from well-informed foreign sour- ces that Chinese guerillas on Sun- day actually reached the walls of Nanking. They are believed to be operating from a base only a few miles from the form er Chinese .capital.
HWAI RIVER
sec-
No progress has been made by the Japanese on the southern tion of the Tientsin-Pukow state reliable messages from Nan- king.
Line,
The Japanese are now firmly held on the Hwai River and have made no, progress during the past two days. Our Own Correspondent.
SHANSI FIGHTING
Hankow, To-day. Messages from Tungkwan, at the extreme south-west corner of Shan- si, state that the area between Tung- chow and Puchow is now the scene of fighting.
TO TAKE REFUGE
Canton, To-day. ·
Mr. G. S. Moss, British Con- sul-General at Hankow, arrived here at 7.35 this morning, after having been delayed by an air raid alarm over Canton just be- fore sunrise.
Four Japanese planes flew over Tungshan but are believed to have dropped no bombs.
Mr. Moss and his wife had to leave the train which remained a few miles outside of Canton, and took to the fields.
A Chinese report claims that heavy anti-aircraft fire brought- down one raider, but the report is unconfirmed.
Delayed arrival of the train caused Mr. Moss to miss the 8 o'clock boat for Hong Kong, and he is probably taking to- morrow's steamer. towns.-Our
These reports state that the Jap- .anese are retreating northwards and
have given up several Own Correspondent.
LIANG HUNG-CHI NEXT
of
Shanghai, To-day. Japanese reports-here-state-that- following the return to China Wang Keh-min, Liang Hung-chi, Chairman of the "Nanking Reform- ed Government," will leave for Japan. Our Own Correspondent.
Two Japanese women and one child made a hectic dash from the station to the boat and just managed to scramble on board before the ship sail- ed.
ex-
Looking pale and worried, they stated they had had a plea- sant journey from Hankow. Every kindness had been tended them-and-a-guard-was- placed on the wharf to assure that no incident occurred.
Meanwhile the air raid alarm is still on all over Canton. Reuter.
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