BIG BATTLE NOW RAGING IN AMOY
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the Chinese set fire to part of the city of Amoy.
Reuter.
REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVE
Amoy, To-day.
was
After a comparatively quiet night, intense aerial activity renewed at dawn this morning on Amoy Island and in the city.
Chinese reinforcements arrived `overnight, and, fighting is progress-
ing with very heavy, casualties.
The hospitals are overflowing with wounded, while refugees are flowing into Kulangsu, where foreigners are safe.-Reuter.
BATTLE RAGING
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 11, 1988.
EUGENE CHEN BATTLESHIPSTOP PRESS
AS FOREIGN MINISTER?
Shanghai, To-day. The Chinese press features a report that Mr. Eugene Chen will will shortly be appointed Foreign Minister in the National Govern- ment.
Failing this, the reports state, it is expected that he will be made senior adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs-Renter.
The
JAPANESE CLAIMS
IN ATTACK ON AMOY
According to a passenger in the which arrived from Haiyang, Swatow and Amoy this morning, the Japanese landing at Amoy was entirely unexpected.
The "Haiyang" arrived at Amoy Shanghai, To-day.
last Friday evening and anchored situation in Amoy this
outside owing to the fact that it morning was developing favour- ably for the Japanese, the Japan-was then after 6 o'clock, the time
limit for incoming vessels. stated at spokesman ese morning's press conference.
this
Reason for the landing, he re- vealed, was that with the Kwang- alltung army in Amoy, the city was serving as a centre of anti-Japan- ese activities, as well as a port through which munitious flowed into China.
On its way to its anchorage, the vessel was accompanied by one of about a dozen Japanese warships which were concentrated outside and not until Tai Lan Island was reached, did the Japanese cruiser return to its original anchorage.
Composition of the Japanese seen by our informant, Amoy a position of fleet, as
gun
three-funnelled turrets, one great significance in the present was one large battleship with three conflict...
cruiser, four destroyers and The spokesman added that thereumber of transports and supply were also about 30,000 Formosans were defeated yesterday, have now in Amoy, "whom it was the Japan-shi
Amoy, 11 a.m. To-day.. The Japanese landing party has been held, and spirited fighting is going on about two kilometres east of the centre of Amoy city. The troops of the 75th Division, who
been reinforced and are counter- attacking strongly.
Big fires are raging in the east and city, some started by bombs others by the Chinese to delay the Japanese advance.
This gave
ese forces' duty to protect." Reuter.
ANKING HELD UP
Manila, To-day. A despatch received from Amoy Warships are shelling, but only states that, the fighting has been at "spotted" points, caution being intensified. compelled by the large colony
of
As a result, the British steamer Formosans in Amoy.-Our Own "Anking," from Manila, has been
unable to enter harbour.-Reuter. Correspondent.
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Chinese officials who boarded the Haiyang showed great interest in how many Japanese ships were al- outside Amoy, concentrated though it was apparent that they had no intimation that any attack on the Port was imminent.
BOMB TERROR IN SHANGHAI
Shangha,i To-day.
The terrorist black hand struck in the heart of the central district last night when a bomb of the potata- masher type was thrown in Kwangsi Road, near Nanking Road, injuring seven Chinese of them pedestrians, one seriously.
Police immediately_cordon- ed off the area and started a floor to floor search in Sin- cere's and Sun Sun's, the two department stores, from the heights of which the mis- sile is believed to have been thrown.
British, American and Japanese military officers and. high police· officials were quickly on the scene to con- duct investigations.-Reuter.
MISSED HIS SHIP
Charged with vagrancy, W. Jack- son, a ship's fireman, was this morning committed to the House of Detention by Mr. R. Edwards ~at. the Central Magistracy this morn- ing. Defendant was formerly. em- ployed on the s.8. City of Derby, but missed his ship a fortnight ago. He gave himself up to the police when he had no more money.
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