JAP. AIR RAIDS TO HALT CHINESE NOVE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 148, 26 June 1939, Page 7

JAP. AIR RAIDS TO HALT CHINESE NOVE.

SWATOW ATTACK.

Reinforcements Assembling

For Counter-Drive.

LANDINGS ON COAST

United Press Association.—Copyright

(Received 1.30 p.m.)

LONDON, June 25.

One hundred Japanese 'planes bombed a wide area in eastern Kwantung in an attempt to halt Chinese reinforcements going to Swatow.

Thirty 'planes worked havoc in Mingshing. Fifty deaths are reported from Chinjrhai as a result of bombings, says a m?ssagp from Shanghai.

Japanese forces menace the treaty port of Ningpo.

A Japanese communique reports that a naval landing has been made at Chusan Island, and also at the adjacent Taishan Island. 100 miles south of Shanghai, at the mouth of Hangchow Hay. with the object of cutting off the seaborne trade of Xingpo.

Tv'nifitHo is the iutcs>t city to be ',jvv\>Ved \>y Av\t'\-Hv'vt'\*\\ \evov. Mrasivc singulis have liecu affixed to building*. 'uwUuYmg \A\e Y\v\t\s\\ Consulate, and tne ./a(»ano.se vom{tailed (lu'nese and Russians ti> take part in meetings and processions which culminated in a demonstration outside the Consulate.

'Mie British Consul at Chefoo, near Weihaiwei. asked the naval authorities to send a warship in view of the threatening political situation, says the British United Tress. Anti-British parades and mass meetings are being held all over Chefoo.

A later message trom Hongkong states that two British warships arrived at Chef on. resulting in the Japanese abandoning an anti-British demonstration.

Only .".00. instead of 100.000. attended the anti-British mass meeting in Poking. The majority were children, who were driven through the streets in Japanese military lorries, shouting abusive slogans. A Japanese offensive in eastern Hainan Island has encircled the main hodv of the Chinese after the capture of Weilgtien. Chiiwhain and Lotou, savs a Tokyo dispatch.