HE CHINA MAIL NOVEMBER 12 1937
HUNDREDS DIE | SHANGHAI UNEASY
IN LANDSLIDE DISASTER
Tokyo, To-day
Between 500 and 600 Japanese miners and their families are thought to have lost their lives in a landslide disaster yesterday at Komenashiyama, on the borders of Nagano and Gumma prefectures.
Fire was added to the terror when stores of explosives blew up with a thunderous roar, turning the entire neighbourhood into a sea of flames visible for miles round.
The landslide, which was of unusual magnitude, is
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Japanese however, make the starting claim that troops from the south have cut the Shanghai- Nanking Railway west of Nan- ziang and that the forces re- tiring from Nanziang have been compelled to retire north. It is computed that the Japanese have suffered more than -60,000 casualties in the last three weeks.
our Gwn Correspondent
NEW LINE FORMED
Nanking, To-day. Following the evacuation of Pooting and Nantao, the Chinese are reported to be holding
buted to melting snowforces·
sunny
over-
weather, and whelmed the large sulphur and copper mine which was al- most entirely wiped out gether with the dwellings of 1,300 miners
FIRE RAGES HOURS Scene of the disaster is a remote mountain district 5,000 feet above. sea level, and is at present snow covered.
as
a new line, with Sunghiang their right wing, Huangtu the cen- tre and Kwangfu the left wing.
At present the Chinese troops are engaging the Japanese forces who landed at Hangchow Bay in the vicinity of Sungkiang and Szechingcheng, north-east of Sung- kiang with Tsipu, north-west of Sungkiang, as the second line of de- #fence.
It is claimed that Sungkiang city is in Chinese hands.
HANGCHOW REPORT UNTRUE
Meanwhile a telephone call from
A rescue party of 500 was rush- ed to the scene of the disaster but the conflagration raged for hours owing to lack of a water supply, Ningpo says that rumours of a Ja-
The Yomiuri Shimbun" states that 50 children were buried in the
landslide and 300 miners --burned to death.
panese landing at Kwanghaiwel, on the south bank of Hangchow Bay, are untrue, though there is considerable activity on the part of Copper mine fumes are impeding Japanese warships off Haiyen, the rescuers Retter.
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