1938-07-12 — Page 24

STUBBORN BATTLE IN THE

KIUKIANG AREA RE

Hankow, To-day.

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BOMBS WHISTLE OVER SHAMEEN

(Continued from Page 1) ing an exciting game of hide-and- munition held up at Wongsha un-seek with the Cantonese A. A. bat- able to get through.

teries, taking skilful advantage of

As it happened, by a miracle of heavy banks of lowlying clouds,

endeavour, the line had been res-through which the planes power- tored by 1.30 a.m. to-day and traf-dived to drop their bombs. fic had been resumed. Certainly, no The A. A. guns were not firing munitions were struck by to-day's wildly, but opened up furiously as soon as Japanese planes emerged into a patch of blue sky or dived to attack. Our Own Correspon- dent.

At the present moment, however, there are no signs

that Kiukiang-the starting point of the rail-bombing. way to Nanchang, capital of the province of CASUALTIES HIGH

Casualties in the river are be Kiangsi-will be surrendered.

lieved to have been at least forty, According to latest reports the ments drawn and barricades erect- but the losses on land are not yet Japanese have succeeded in reach-1 ed. At all important street. cross-known. There will be no repeti- ing the western shore of Lake ings, sandbag defences have beention of the fearful carnage of May

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Poyan, so that they are now only piled up, behind which machine- and June, however, owing to the STOP PRESS

born Chinese resistance.

7 kilometres from Kiukiang, and guns emplacements have been posi-mass evacuation of the Wongsha are still advancing despite a stub-tioned. It is, therefore, to be ex-area.

pected that even inside the town Casualties and damage in the itself a furious and deadly battle north-east suburbs, where twelve will be fought before the final sur-high explosive and incendiary render.

bombs were dropped earlier on, is

Covered by fire from their war ships, the Japanese landed troops on the western bank. of the stream by which Lake Poyang empties into the Yangtse, from which position, has already fled under cover they are advancing further to the

west.

At same time, Japanese warships moved higher up the Yangtse and have already started to bombard the fortifications of the town of Kiu- kiang.

TOWN DEFENCES Inside the town trenches

A greater part of the population not yet known, but the Red Cross of workers were sent out immediately, darkness while the electricity supply indicating that another toll of ci- has been interrupted.

MARTIAL LAW

vilian casualties was taken in the vicinity of St. Hilda's School and Nobody may move along the Holy Trinity College. streets without a pass made out by the military authorities.

More than sixty bombs were dropped in different parts of Can- The wealthy Chinese of Kiukiang ton city this morning. From Our have fled to the nearby Lushan Staff Representative. have Mountains. “In Kuling, the famous

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REUTER VERSION After spending one hour raiding Canton' the Japanese planes left at about 11.25 am.

The Wongsha area, scene of the previous disastrous bomb- ings, suffered more than ever, but the casualties are not be- lieved to be so heavy owing to the mass evacuation. About 40 bombs were dropped in this area, many of which fell into the river, overturning hun- reds of sampans and junks and smashing them into kin- dling wood. Twenty bombs were dropped on the Wongsha sta~ tion resulting in tremendous havoc..

The planes were flying at about 10,000 feet and were hidden by clouds, but their ac- curacy was remarkable.

The residential area to the southwest of the Sun Yat Sen Memorial was also bombed, about 12 to 15 missiles falling in this district Reuter

EXCITING GAME

The Japanese machines were play-

Canton, To-day. Nearly 1,000 inmates of the pro- vincial gaol near the government offices in the northeastward city of Canton, narrowly escaped being - bombed to-day as several bombs dropped within a few feet of the buildings, demolishing scores of civilian houses nearby.

The Wongsha station and, ter- minus also suffered with three lo- comotives being badly damaged and several large sections of the track -torn up.

A number of civilian · houses here were also demolished.” but a passenger train waiting, at ́ the station escaped. The locomo- tive of the train was badly damag- ed, but fortunately the passengers had taken refuge.

In the Wongsha area the bombs fell for the most part in the slum districts-with-only slight-casual- ties as the majority of the popu- lation of the huts had already eva- cuated.-Reuter.

MARRIAGE

The wedding arranged between Mr. John Henry Fox and Miss Patricia Carton Cooper will take No in- friends will be welcome at the re- vitations will be issued but all

ception to be held in The Jacobean de

Room of The Hong Kong Hotel at 5 p.m.

Rummer resort of the white popula tion, a refugee zone has been estab-place on 16th. July, 1988. lished under the supervision of for- eigners and thousands of Chinese have already sought refuge there.

Military circles in: Hankow clare that fall of Kiukiang will not- affect the situation on the Yangtse, since the main Chinese line of defence is east of Kiukiang. They do not, however, reveal where this line of defence lies.Trans-Ocean.

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