CHINESE PLANES BLAST SHIPS IN RED-HELD PORTS
HONG KONG, Aug. 14. Nationalist aircraft from bases on Taiwan raided Shanghai and Nanking, making shipping in the Whangpoo and the Yangtse Rivers their main targets, says a Central News Agency dispatch from Taipeh. , , , At Shanghai direct hits were scored on the stern of the large passenger steamer Haihsin which immediately listed. , , . , , After attacking a 2000-ton freighter “with disastrous results” the agency said the planes swept along the Yangtse. They sank a 200-ton ship flying the Red flag and other smaller vessels. At Nanking more than 30 wooden junks were either destroyed or damagThe agency said that, despite heavy anti-aircraft fire the planes returned without loss.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23025, 16 August 1949, Page 5
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