The Archive · 1937

JAPAN'S ENVOY-A'T-LARGE COMING TO EXPLAIN

Mr. Ko Will Seck to Disprove Chinese Propaganda Here Tokyo, Oct. 7.

In an effort to clarify the attitude of Japan on the current Sino-Japan ese hostilities, the Foreign Office has. decided to send Mr. Nobufumi Ito, former Japanese Minister to Poland, to Shanghai where he will act as envoy-at-large, Domei learned on ood authority. Mr. Ito will keep in close contact with foreign diplomatists in Shanghai and will attempt to explain the attitude of the Japan-

Company, on the Shanghai-Taitsang highway.

"Another battery, the statement sid, was "severely damaged" somewhere "near Chungshan oad."

Collaborating with the Japanese Anmy, the naval planes subjected Chinese positions in the~ Liuhang sector to a "very severe bombard ment."

Other planes, meanwhile, bombed the railway station at Changchow and strafed troop concentrations Taitsang, the communique concluded,

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