CHINA & JAPAN

Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1939, Page 5

CHINA & JAPAN

CITY DECIMATED HUGE JAPANESE AIR RAID (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright/. CHINGKING, August 21. Three-quarters of Iviatingfu has been destroyed, after a huge Japanese air raid, which caused uncontrollable fires. No details of casualties are available, but they are believed to be enormous. The city walls prevented the quick evacuation of the inhabitants. It is assumed that the raid resulted from a Japanese broadcast that Marshal Chiang Kai Shek had moved to Kiatingfu, although he is still at Chungking.

CHINA’S MILLIONS TRAINING. HONG KONG, August 21. It is reported from Chungking that three million Chinese troops are at -present in training, in addition to two million now carrying arms. It is believed that when these troops are ready, Marshal Chiang Kai Shek will launch an offensive. ' hong KONG PRECAUTIONS. HONG KONG, August 21. British and Japanese military officials, met on the frontier this morning, and conferred on the exact demarcation of the boundary in order to avoid incidents.

BOMBED AND GUNNED. (Received this day at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, August 21. The “Exchange Telegraph” Agency’s Hong Kong correspondent says that Japanese planes from warships anchored at Pakhoi, a treaty port, are reported to have bombed anod machine-gunned the surrounding country, violating Kwangchowman, which was leased to the French in 1898 for ninety-nine years.

RAID CASUALTIES. (Received this day at 10.20 a.m.) CHUNGKING, August 21. The air raid on Kiatinvfu resulted in over 500 casualties. The Australians, Peter King, Mrs King, and Mrs H. Mclntyre, and the Canadian, Miss McLean, and an American, Miss Thoering, narrowly escaped. The Canadian church and clinic were demolished, and buildings in the business district wrecked. Nine university students were killed.

JAP. CABINET TO MEET (Received this day at 16.5 a.m.) TOKIO, August 21. The “Asahi Sliimbun” says Japan is considering denouncing the Nine Power Treaty. Cabinet meets on August 22, and is expected to finally decide its European policy. A FOOD RIOT. (Received this day at 10.5 a.m.) SHANGHAI, August 21. Hundreds of Chinese looted flour and rice stores, and carried off hundreds of bags of flour before the police beat them back. Tt was the first food riot here since 1937.