1938-06-14 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 14, 1938.

FLOOD ROARING

BECOMING

CATARACT

Kaifeng Completely Surrounded By Water

JAPANESE

LANDING ALONG

YANGTSZE

Hankow, To-day.

Japanese Accuse PLANE BRINGS

Chinese And

Vice Versa

Japanese troops, landed yester-The waters of the Yellow new, To-day..

day morning at Wushahsia and Chienchiangkou, on the south bank of the Yangtse, and Chinyangho,

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on the north bank, under cover of terrific bombardment from Japanese warships, according to an urgent telephone message from Anking.

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now pouring board H.M.S. Dorsetshire while she was on exercises, Ordinary through the destroyed dykes between Cheng- Seaman James O'Shea was chow and Kaifeng, like a roaring cataract ten brought to Hong Kong last night miles in breadth, into that part of the Plain of by a seaplane catapulated off the Honan, situated on the river's southern bank. The plane was seen circling According to reports here yesterday morning, Kai-over the harbour at about 9.20 feng is completely surrounded by water. All p.m. last night, but was thought gates of the city have been shut and barricaded aircraft searchlight batteries. with sandbags in the hope of the prevention of Landing lights were provided inundation.

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to be exercising with the anti-

in the harbour and the sick man was rushed by fast motorboat from the seaplane to the Royal A big fleet of Japanese warships Naval Hospital. Operation on ese troops has already reached is anchored in the Yangtze at An-Shea was deferred until this Kaifeng while the civilian popula-king, continually shelling, to cover morning.'

The greater part of the Japan-[ were

The Japanese at Chienchiangkou were driven back to their ships, while those at Wushahsia forced to retreat to the Yangtse.

the Fighting is progressing on north bank at Chinyangho, where detachment of Japanese troops ap- peared on Sunday.

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The Japanese forces at Yushih are reported to be attacking Yuch- wan while another Japanese lumn from Luyi are attacking Kwaiyuan near Yencheng.

SEVERE FIGHTING

tion is said to be fleeing in the the landing of troops. direction of Chengchow, where The severest attack was launched over 50,000 fugitives have ar- by the Japanesé on Sunday night when the Japanese warships opened rived.

The authorities at Chengchow a terrific bombardment on the city. are making desperate efforts to The shells caused several huge. fires. procure necessary food supplies Under the barrage, Japanese troops for the refugees but their work approached the bank in motor boats is greatly impeded by the fact but finally were repulsed. that trains must, first and fore- They are continuing their efforts Prior to the receipt of the tele-most, be placed at the service of to land. phone message from the front, the

Chinese troops. Chinese spokesman said that

It is feared that within a short vere fighting was in progress at time, the whole plain of Honan, Kweichih on the south bank of the both north and south of Hwang Yangtse where the Japanese landed ho, will be flooded. troops from transports under cover of a bombardment from their war- ships.

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Following the failure to effect a landing on Sunday, the spokesman asserted that the Japanese had managed to land troops yesterday morning on the south bank

GRAVE PROBLEM

JAPANESE LOSSES

EIGHT MILLION

STERLING DEFENCE LOAN

London, To-day. Reuter learns that the lists for the eighty million sterling, de- fence loan, opens and closes to-

On the south bank of the Yang- tze River between Kweichih and Tatung there is no more trace of morrow. Japanese troops. The Japanese suf-

It will be three per cent., issued Provincial authorities, have fered a crushing defeat at Wusha- at 98, redeemable between 1954 and been instructed to pay particular cha, 23 kilometres west of Kwie- 1958. It will be part of the bor- Those who at-rowing programme announced last attention to the problem of re-chih on June 12. fugees, which will become ex- tempted to land at other points on year.

Including the £100,000,000 raised tremely difficult within the next the south bank-were-also-repulsed. near few days.

It is estimated that about 800 by the loan of April 1937, the total Kweichih. He believed that fight- The Chinese and Japanese accuse Japanese soldiers were killed. The borrowed for the defences, with the ing near Kwiechih would

assume each other mutually. of, respon-corpses are being buried. More than budget of last year's surplus of 29 serious proportions soon since the bility for the destruction of the 40 Japanese machine-guns and a millions, becomes 209 millions. Japanese landing operations were dykes. The Chinese assert that large number of rifles were seized. not in the nature of a test, but in- the Japanese desire by these means dicated an attempt to launch drive along the Yangtse.

-Central News.

MAJOR BATTLE PREDICTED

Tokyo, To-day.

The attack of the Japanese fleet and Air Force on Anking and the

It is estimated that the total, including the present borrowing, will suffice to cover defence expen- diture from borrowed money for about a year.-Reuter:

to decimate the defenceless popula- tion and there is no doubt that the NORTH ANHWEI

of sufferings

the inhabitants, Referring to the situation in which is already great in conse north-west Anhwei, the spokesmarquence of the hostilities, has been said that the Chinese forces were immeasurably increased by the holding the hills at Taohsicheng, flood catastrophe.

large Chinese troop concentrations for Hankow will soon be fought north of Shuchen and Luchiang and The Japanese, on the other hand, in the sector between Anking and near that town, according to the Chinese and the Japanese declare that the dykes have been the Peiping-Hankow Railway, give spokesman of the Japanese Foreign troops had been facing each other dstroyed by the Chinese with the every indication that a major battle Office-Trans-Ocean. since June 8 across the river west object of discrditing the Japanese

of Chengyangkwan.

In Shansi, the spokesman assert- the latter. ed, the Chinese forces were attack ing Yunchen but no progress had been made in the Chinese attack on Houma and Linfeng adding, that Chinese in Shantung were active in the vicinity of Taian and Poshan.

Reuter

MYSTERY FLIGHT

Hankow, To-day. A large number of Chinese bombers hopped off day for an undisclosed tination. It is believed pos- sible that their destination was Kweichih, where there: is a concentration of Japan-

· Reuter. ese warships.

by ascribing the responsibility to

ADVANTAGEOUS TO CHINA Whilst 35 million inhabitants of the province of Honan will be ex- posed to terrible misery by the floods, there is no gainsaying the fact that the catastrophe is ad- vantageous to China from a mili- tary viewpoint since the floods prevent the Japanese from advance, ing long the Peiping-Hankow Rail- way in a southerly direction on Hsuchang-Trans-Ocean.

-ANKING SITUATION

Hankow, To-day. Whilst the south bank of the Yangtze River has been cleared of Japanese troops, the situation at Anking, capital of Anhwel, is . ex- Central tremely, tense, writes: News correspondent who is, touring the Yangtze front.

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