TWELVE JAPANESE WARSHIPS SUNK.
CHINESE CLAIMS.
Aeroplanes Raid River Fleet at Anking.
CHIANG SURE OF VICTORY.
United Press Association.—Copyright.
(Received 12.30 p.m.)
LONDON, July 3
Chinese 'planes raiding the Japanese river fleet at Anking, says a Shanghai message, claim to have sunk 12, including an aircraftcarrier and two destroyers. They also claim to have disabled 23.
Tlie Japanese say they brought down seven of 14 Chinese 'planes at Anking, besides sinking a Chinese gunboat.
Mar-hal Chiang Kai-shek has circularised officers saying that although th-ho.-tilities are serious, terrain and manpower favours China in the decisive stage, which is now imminent. Victory is certain if civil and military officials co-operate with the people in augmenting the Armv.
"1 he 1 imes" Tokyo correspondent. -ays Japane-e agree that munitions entering China from Hongkong and Macao are a mere fraction of the quantity from Indo-China and land routes. The Chinese boast they have enough accumulated for vears of intense lighting.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 155, 4 July 1938, Page 9
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