793.94/9884
The Chinese Embassy to the Department of State
According to an official report received at the Chinese Embassy, the Japanese, having failed to dislodge the stern resistance of the Chinese at the Nankow Pass, have gone so far as even to use poisonous gas at Chu Yung Kwan, a few miles northwest of the Nankow Pass, and its vicinity in addition to their indiscriminate shelling and bombing. The inhuman and unlawful acts were reported to be committed by the Japanese troops on August 24th and 25th.
[
Washington
,] August 27, 1937.