IMPORTANT BRIDGE BOMBED
BY JAPANESE IN SOUTH CHINA THE RAILWAY DISPUTE WITH FRANCE rU.F.A.-By Electric Teleg *aph-Copyrtght) NEW YORK, Uth January. The “New York Times” Chungking correspondent says that Japanese bombers badly damaged an important bridge of the Yunnan railway in the mountains near Mengtze. Engineers estimated that it will require at least a month and perhaps a year to rebuild. While temporary portages are being arranged, permitting limited traffic of supplies, bombings continue daily and other vital links are menaced. The Shanghai correspondent of the “New York Times” said in an earlier message that French representations that if the railway was ruined the supplies would be transhipped to Rangoon and would reach China over the Burma highway had failed to change the Japanese determination.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 12 January 1940, Page 4
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