BOMBS THROWN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23084, 8 July 1938, Page 11

BOMBS THROWN

THE SHANGHAI BUND

FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF WAR CHINESE LAUNCH ATTACK CHIANG BROADCASTS TO JAPAN By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received July 7, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, July Three bombs thrown simultaneously on the Shanghai Bund at 6 a.m. marked the beginning of the first anniversary of the Sino-Japan-cso hostilities. Tho objectives were a Japanese sentry post, the headquarters of the Japanese Gendarmerie, and the Yokohama Specie Bank. One C'h inesc was killed and one was injured.

Japanese soldiers and police cordoned off the area. Tlio Chinese, savs a message from Shanghai, commemorated tho first anniversary of the war by attacking tho Jnpnncso on a 25-mile front between Pongtseh ancl Hukow, on the south bank of tho Yangtso. They claim to have retaken Hukow.

Tho Japanese have bottled up numerous Chinese warships and junks on Lake Poyang, says a despatch from Tokio.

"How many of your brothers and sons have become ghosts on tho mainland? A\ hat have you got from Manchukuo except higher taxes?" asks the Chinese Generalissimo, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, on tho first anniversary of tho outbreak of the war witli Japan, in a message to the Japanese nation. Marshal Chiang points out that Japan lias already spent more than she did on the whole of the RussoJapanese war. Her Army has become the world's most barbarous and most cruel instrument of destruction.

The Prime Minister of Japan, Prince Konoye, has issued a statement in Tokio reiterating Japan's rejection of mediation and admitting that it is not a simple task to crush Marshal Chiang Kai-shek.

The statement warns the Japanese that they will feel the pinch harder in 1939.