FIERCE ATTACK BY JAPANESE
OCCUPATION OF NANCHANG DENIED (Received March 29, 6 p.m.) TOKYO. March 28. Under intense artillery cover, Japanese are fiercely attacking Wuning. Others are heading for Kaoan, 45 miles south-west of Nanchang, which is burning fiercely. A Shanghai message says that the Chinese do not admit that Nanchang has been occupied and claim that bitter street fighting continues. An earlier message said that the Japanese claim to have disrupted a vital railway from Wanchwang to Tseng-kia-chang, cutting off- General Ku Chutung’s 18 Chinese divisions and paralysing central Chinese communications from Siaoshan to Chuchow, a distance of 620 miles.
BRITONS ARRESTED IN FORMOSA
TOKYO, March 28
Two officers and one member of the crew of the British freighter Nailsea Moor were arrested in Formosa on a charge of photographing a fortified zone.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22673, 30 March 1939, Page 11
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