HOSPITAL BOMBED

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 March 1939, Page 7

HOSPITAL BOMBED

BY JAPANESE AIRCRAFT UNION JACKS IGNORED [by CABLE PLESS ASSN.- -COPYRIGHT.] (Received March 10, 8 a.m.) SHANGHAI, March 9. While Union Jacks were flying, Japanese war-planes bombed the English Baptist Mission and the Jenkin Robertson Hospital, at Sianfu, destroying the operating theatre, the X-ray department, and two wards. A Chinese nurse was killed.

JAPANESE VERSION. TOKIO, March 9. A field dispatch says that air units raided the Yungchang Liangchow, Lingliang, and Sianfu military establishments, and effectively bombed them. TCHANG IN RUINS. LONDON, March 9. Reuter’s Shanghai correspondent says that Ichang is almost completely in ruins, after air-raids. At least 60 bombs were dropped, and there were 1500 casualties. ANGLO-AMERICAN AID. TOKIO, March 9. Mr. Arita, in the Diet, said that the Government does not regard An-glo-American help to China, in the nature of sanctions against Japan. An economic blockade was not easily achievable, and the grave consequences were well known to these Powers. BUDGET APPROVED. TOKIO, March 9. Parliament has unanimously passed the extraordinary military budget of £270.000,000, for the China campaign.