Mukden, Aug. 27.
Twenty thousand Inner Mongolian troops contributed to the Japanese victory at Nankow Pass, according toa Kwantung Army spokesman.
The Mongols, with the Japanese. cut off and inflicted heavy losses on the retreating Chinese, he declared.
Japanese quarters, the spokesman said, admitted that ce-operation between the Mongols and the Japanese against the Chinese was "a prelude to Japanese support of the Inner Mongolia defence movement and the establishment of a Mongol state styled 'Mongoukuo.' "Reuter.
Poison Gas Use Alleged 7 Nanking, Aug. 26.
The Generalissimo's headquarters announced to-day that Japanese troops, after repeated failures to capture Nankow, employed poison gas on August 24 and 25 on Chinese troops of the 89th Division, "which i ing up a very stubborn re-
Heavy Shelling By Japanese Two new ships arrived in port yesterday. Upper shows the U.SS. Gold Star, a supply ship, which brought 100 Marines from Manila to Woosung on Thursday and came up the river yesterday to moor off the end of Nanking Road directly ahead of the USS. Augusta to discharge supplies. Lower is a View of the first Japanese hospital ship to call here, the Asahi Maru. She is ticd up near the Japanese Consulate,
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