CHINESE LOSSES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 211, 6 August 1937, Page 7

CHINESE LOSSES.

MEN AND MUNITIONS. MURDERERS ROUNDED UT. TUNGCHOW MASSACRE. Received August 6. 9.30 a.m. TOIvIO, Aug. 5. It is estimated that 2500 Chinese have been killed at Nanyuan and 150 at Tungchow, while the Japanese have disarmed 8200 Chinese in Peiyuan, Tungchow and West Pekin. They have also captured four field-guns, four howitzers, 11 trench mortars and over 200 Czech machine-guns, 5000 rifles and quantities of revolvers and swords. A Pekin message states that the Japanese have rounded up and annihilated 250 Chinese police who, it is alleged, participated in the Tungchow massacre.

Mr Sugiyama, speaking on the Estimates debate in the Diet, said it was doubtful whether the Japanese garrison would be able to maintain its present attitude in the face of the steady advance of the Chinese troops to North China. The Japanese were fully prepared for punitive measures if the Chinese assumed the offensive.

Major Nakagawa, spokesman for tho War Office, told an all-party conference of the House of Representatives on Tuesday that 130 bodies of Japanese and Koreans, including women and children, had been recovered from Tungchow. _ All bore hideous marks of atrocities. Major Nakagawa added that 11 Japanese women taking refuge in an hotel at Tungchow were all outraged. Escaped Japanese told the Tientsin correspondent of the journal Asahi that he had found a pond inside the east gate crimson with the blood of 60 Japanese and Koreans, who had been killed and thrown into the pond. Twenty-nine others were found butchered in another pond nearby. Women and children were included in each case.