Tokyo, Aug. 26.
spokesman of the War Ministry today denied a Chinese allegation presented to Mr. Joseph Avenol, Director-General of the Secretariat of the League of Nations, that: the Japanese forces annihilated two Chinese battalions at a battle near Chuchwang in Kiangsi August 22 by using poison gas. The spokesman said the Japanese troops do not use poison gas. He pointed to the fact that it is prohibited by international law.—Domei. the Kuomintang andthe Chinese Communist Party, secondly, the Chinese' nation united in resistance against) Japanese aggression, and thirdly, the "Chinese. army "united under" one command for antisJapan= te. resistance.
General Chu Teh strongly con-dernns "malicious attacks aguinst the Eighth Route Army." alleging that the army. "is mobile, but docs not attack, takes money, but will not fa the "Chinese nation to. unite"in san Oneluding, General Chu Teh,
effort "to. smash the Japanese "drive on Hankow and to recover lost ters. tory by driving the Japanese back into the China sen~Reutor, Chinese Mohammedans To Tell of War Hankow, Aug. 23.
'The Chinese League of Nations Union is sending two Mohammedan delegates to tour the Near Eust cou twies, including—India, Pers Afghanistan, Tran, Iraq, Turkey und Egypt, in' order to acquaint th th' the facts of the present hostilities between China and Japan.
The two delegates, Mr. Nai Sha, Mohammedan from Sinkiang, and medan, shortly from Hong-te. Ma Fu-liang, a Chinese Moham-
kong.—Reuler.
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