The Archive · 1938

Is Thrown at Japanese Atrocities Denied

Hongkong, May 19.

One hundred Chinese were shot to death by Japanese troops after: a bomb hurled at a Japanese patrol at Amoy had killed seven Japanese, the "South China Morning Post's' Amoy correspondent reported today.

The bomb was thrown at the Japanese patrol at a time when it passing the former Volunteer ad quarters at Amoy, the cortespondent said, Seven Japanese were killed in the m, he reported.

Japanese troops, the "South China Morning Post" correspondent said, immediately rounded up. all Chinese in the vicinity of the explosion and shot 100 Chinese.—United. Press.

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