CHINA & JAPAN

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1937, Page 6

CHINA & JAPAN

A WARNING. TO BOMB NANKING. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) SHANGHAI, September 19. Admiral Hasegawa. has issued a warning that he intends to bomb Nanking on the afternoon of September ‘2l. He urges all foreigners to move to place of safety and foreign warships and merchantmen to moor us. stream, out of danger. Forty Japanese planes bombed tli.a outskirts of Nanking to-day. AIR ATTACKS. AND AIR FIGHTS. (Received this day at 2 p.m.) NANKING, September 19. After an air fight over Chingkiang, .Japanese bombing p.lanes and fighters from Shanghai bases, delivered the eleventh and twelfth raids on Nanking since the commencement of hostilities. The first raid engaging, forty-three planes, lasted twenty minutes. Chinese archies aided intercepting planes and scattered the attackers after bombs were dropped with negligible effect near the waterworks, arsenal, aerodrome, and broadcasting station, ■ Twenty-three planes participated in 'the afternooii in an attack. Chinese claim they brought down six, killing two airmen ami capturing five. Chinese admit the loss of three planes, in which two airmen were killed and live injured.

Japanese assert six Chinese planes were brought down, while their Shanghai spokesman asserts all the Chineso planes engaged, numbering twentysix, were brought down. He admits three. Japanese failed to return. Chinese say only seventeen Chinese machines were engaged. . , Japanese also raided Paotingfu and Taiyuanfu, the capital of Shansi,, where they brought down seven Chinese planes and defeated nine bombers. Japanese also bombed military points on Canton railway destroying much war material.