BIG BOMBARDMENT EXPECTED

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 243, 11 July 1938, Page 11

BIG BOMBARDMENT EXPECTED

Japan Warns Foreigners

(Received July 10, 5.30 p.m.)

Shanghai, July 9. Foreshadowing an intensive bombardment Of Kiukiang and Ruling, on the banks of the Yangtse, the Japanese have urged foreign consuls to evacuate their nationals and merchantmen. Warships between Kukow and Wangshikong at present consist of one British and one American gunboat at Kiukiang. Japan has requested all foreign warships to fly at the masthead identity streamers, to prevent any aerial mischances. CHINESE AIR RAID SUCCESS Population Flees From Kiukiang (Received July 10, 9.30 p.m.) Hankow, July 10. The Chinese claim that in an air raid on Anking they destroyed 50 Japanese planes and damaged five warships. Nearly the entire civilian population has evacuated Kiukiang, from which the Japanese are 15 miles distant. The defenders are hurriedly fortifying the town with sandbags and barbed wire. CHINA’S MILITARY ADVISERS Arrival In Hong Kong (Received July 10, 9.30 p.m.) Hong Kong, July 9. General Falkenhauscn, German military adviser to the Chinese Government, and 28 other advisers, have arrived here by train, having taken seven days to traverse the 600 miles from Hankow through Japanese having bombed the railway. £46,600,000 FOR JAPAN’S NAVY Tokio, July 8. The Domei news agency semi-oflici-ally announces that the naval budget totals £46,600,000, covering all costa, including constructions.