Dairen, June 25.
Four Chinese, suspected of smug~ gling war materials into China, were rested here on June 9, are said to have been send~ ing materials for the manufacture of gunpowder loaded on. funks to 'China ports, 'Two of the' gang are still at large, A truck containing war materials was stopped by a policeman on June 6, but the policeman was, knocked out, and the smugglers made good their escape, The truck was eventually traced, Jond the four men arrested.
The police announce that the smuggling "racket" had been going on since November, 1096, and the war materials had been selling at ten times their market price.
Several Japanese stores are suspected of having sold the war materlals,—Reuter, Journalists Killed Shanghai, Jiane 26.
The Sino-Japanese hostilities claim-fed the lives of two Japanese newsmen in the afternoon of June 22, it was announced here yesterday, The victims were Mr. "#isao ° Shimozu, cameraman of the Domei News Agency, and Mr, Yujiro Wakatsuki, 34, correspondent of the: "Tokyo Yomiuri," influential dally, 'The scene and circumstances of their death were not revealed, Mr, Shimozu was an expert photographer fof 15 years' experience, He landed Woosung last year and had taken many war pictures, including some at Chapel and in the Shanghai suburbs, He also wimed the landing of Japanese troops. at "Hangchow Bay, operations on Lake Tal and the Sitack on Nanking, fe was th fourth Domei man io lose his Ife since the commencement of hostillties, He Is survived by his widow and a two-year old child residing in Yokohama, Japanese About to Land Hongkong, June 23.
A Japanese andi was believed imminent this: morning, following Chinese reports trons swatow stating that Japanese warships were shelling the coast near Swatow Where Japanese planes were recon nolting.
The attack on the coastal defenses followed yesterday's bombing of Swatow in which the railway station was badly damaged and the power plant.decommissioned, Chinese reports meanwhile admitted {that Chinese troops were withdrawing Howard the west end of Namoa Island, thirty miles north-east of Swatow, where Japanese troops landed yester-[day under a heavy barrage from Japanese warships—United Press,
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