JAPANESE ARMIFS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 133, 2 December 1937, Page 11

JAPANESE ARMIFS

CIVILIANS' HURRIED EXIT

CLEARING THE RIVER

KIANGYIN BOOM PIERCED

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

(Received December 2, 9 a.m.) NANKING, December 1. Verey lights were discernible all night from the foreign Embassies, indicating the nearness of the approaching Japanese army. A fire and a series of explosions a _ few miles to the east where it is believed an ammunition dump was blown up hastened the evacuation. Thousands of people are streaming out of the city proceeding up the river, and soon only soldiers will remain.

A Shanghai message says if is reported that the Japanese have pierced the barrier of sunken ships across the Yangtze-kiang at Kiangyin and that lighter warships and transports will 'be able to go upstream through a 50-foot gap as soon as the river is cleared of mines. Japanese set fire to junks-moored at the boom in the Whangpoo River at Shanghai, and they are burning fiercely. Air local vessels on the river-front are flying Japanese flags after the realisation that foreign flags afford no guarantee against seizure.