TRAIN BLOWN UP
ON WAY TO NANKING FOR TREATY CELEBRATIONS (Received 30th November. 10.45 a.m.) SHANGHAI 29th November. A train conveying a number of foreign correspondents and Chinese and Japanese officials to Nanking from Shanghai for to-morrow’s ceremony of the signature of the treaty between Japan and the Wang-Cliing-Wei regime is reported to have been blown up just outside Soochow this morning. Five cars were derailed as a result of the explosion, which was apparently due to guerrilla action. The casualties are reported to total 100, but it is not known whether they include foreigners. The entire Shanghai-Nankin train service has been disrupted. The railway has cancelled all today’s services to Nanking. CHINESE SUCCESS CLAIMED (Received 30th November, 10.30 a.m.) SHANGHAI, 29th November. The Chinese claim to have smashed the Japanese offensive in northern Hupeh province. It is added that the Chinese have recovered several points in north-west Suihsien and have forced the Japanese to retire southward. They have claimed the capture of many machine-guns and hundreds of rifles.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 30 November 1940, Page 7
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