THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 16, 1938.
ARMED
OFF
TRANSPORTS
COAST
FUKIEN
Imminent Attack On Foochow Still Feared
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The Aerodrome
Shanghai, To-day.
The presence of armed transports off the Fukien coast has given rise to fears among the popu- lace of Foochow of an imminent Japanese in- vasion, according to a foreign report. The report says that preparations are being made by the inhabitants for evacuation into the in- terior. Japanese planes raided Foochow aero- drome yesterday and dropped twelve bombs, which caused no damage except to create cra- ters in the airfield which workmen speedily fill-
Reuter.
here
ed up.
Canton, To-day. It is officially announced that the Japanese fully occupied Amoy Island on Friday, all Chinese troops having retired to the main- land.
The Japanese are sending gong- beaters about the Island informing the population that the Chin- ese troops have been driven away and that the Japanese will take over the administration.
Residents have been ordered to surrender all firearms to the Japan- ese. Most of the Chinese, are, however, still on Kulangsu.
Meanwhile there is a heavy con- centration of Chinese forces on the mainland.
NEXT MOVE?
No attempt has yet been made by the Japanese to land troops on the Fukien coast between Amoy and Foochow. It is however ex- pested that the next move will come soon and that the most likely place for the Japanese to attempt to land _will_be_in_the_vicinity of Swatow.-
Our Own Correspondent.
LUNGHAI FRONT
Shanghai, To-day.
NEW "LORD”
OF AMOY ISLAND?
Shanghai, To-day. Japanese reports here state that the former Japanese Con- sul-General at Amoy will leave Tokyo on Tuesday for Amoy Is- land. He will be accompanied by the Vice-Consul and staff and will first fly to Formosa-Our Own Correspondent.
DR. WYATT'S
MURDER IN
NORTH SHANSI
London, To-day.
Dr. Chesterman, medical secre- It is reliably learned here that tary of the Baptist Missionary the Lung-Hai Line has been badly Society, told Reuter yesterday that damaged by Japanese bombers. The civilian casualty list in Hsuchow is they knew that Dr. H. G. Wyatt, steadily mounting, anl red-reported to have been shot and cross and rescue workers are still killed in north Shansi, was conduct- digging in the debris for dead and
ing a party of missionaries to wounded.
still Taichow.
are
Buildings in Kaifeng ablaze from incendiary bombs drop- Dr. Chesterman had been told ped by the Japanese yesterday. that Japanese soldiers had rescued
Chinese re-capture of Yungcheng two other missionaries and that| is asserted and fighting is also in Dr. Wyatt and Miss Glasby_had progress in the neighbourhood of been faurdered by Chinese Com- Mengcheng, where the Chinese are munists. violently counter-attacking.
The Society, however, Contrary to Japanese reports, it able to accept that version without is reliably learned that the Chinese
confirmation, ឆង last November, have made no attempt to withdraw statements were published about from Hsurhowfu, and are not the ill-treatment of Dr. Wyatt by making any preparations to aban- the Chinese, which later proved don the city. Our Own Correspon baseless. Reuter. dent.
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WEST KENTS IN SHARP FIGHT
Jerusalem, To-day, A ́private was killed and 'an- other wounded when the West Kents fought a Hand-to-hand encounter in which they made bayonet charges near the village
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Two turbine cargo boats the "West Indian” of 5,000 tons and its sis- ter ship the "Western Belle" of 5,600 tons, are now being broken up at Briton Ferry, Glamorgan. The boats which were built in 1918 for the United States Shipping Board have never carried a cargo as the expected shipping boom after the war never materialised. All that remains of the "West Indian”—the ship that never carried a cargo. (Copyright).
of Tamba yesterday, following an) bombing and machine-gunning ambush on the Acre-Safed road. the rebels, whose casualties were When the rebels were dispers-at least 40, while two were cap-.
Reuter. ed, R.A.F. planes pursued them, tured,
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