BOMBARDMENT EXPECTED.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 July 1938, Page 5

BOMBARDMENT EXPECTED.

BANKS OF YANGTSE MIGHT SUFFER. JAPS SEEK EVACUATION OF NATIONALS

(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) Received Sunday, 6.30 p.m. SHANGHAI, July 9Foreshadowing an intensive ■bombardment of Kiukiang and Kuling, on the banks of the Yangtse the Japanese have urged the foreign consuls to evacuate their nationals and merchantmen. Warships between Hukow and Wangshikong at present number one , British and one American gunboat at Kiukiang. Japan has requested foreign warships to fly long masthead identity streamers to prevent aerial mischances. The Chinese claim that in an air raid on Anking they destroyed fifty Japanese planes and damaged five warships.

MILITARY ADVISERS ON WAY HOME DIFFICULT JOURNEY THROUGH BOMBED AREA HONG KONG, July 9. The chief German adviser to the Chinese army, General Falkenhausen, and 28 other advisers have arrived by train, having taken seven days to traverse 600 miles from , Hankow through Japanese bombing the railway. JAPAN’S NAVY BUDGET OF £46,600,000. TOKIO, July 8. The Dome! news agency semi-official),/ announces that the naval budget totals £46,600,000, covering all costs, including construction.

JAPANESE TEXTILES MIXING OF STAPLE FIBRES ORDERED. TOKIO, July S. Japanese woollen and textile manufacturers have been ordered to mix istaple fibres in their products to the ex{rent of 80 to 40 per cent. The decree bans exports of woollen fabrics from Japan, Manchukno and China.

( FLOODS CHECK JAP, DRIVE. (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m. SHANGHAI, July 10. 1 Floods checked the Japanese drive towards Hankow. British and American residents have evacuated Kiu-Kiaug, and had gone aboard gunboats as three Japanese warships began shelling the fort.