JAPANESE BOMB TOWN
KEY POINT OF DEFENCES RELATIONS WITH BRITAIN (Received July 21, 12.5 a.m.) LONDON, July 20 Throe hundred Japanese bombs were dropped on a wide area of Kiukiang, which is regarded as the key point of the Chinese Yangtse River defences. 'At least 30 people were killed in Kiukiang itself. It is estimated that there were 1000 casualties in the Japanese air raids on [Wijhau and other centres yesterday, including 500 killed in Hankow. Tho British Ambassador to Japan, Sir liobert Craigie, and the Foreign Minister, Mr. Ugaki, will begin tomorrow a series of conferences with the object of settling outstanding AngloJapanese problems, says a message from ■Tokio.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23095, 21 July 1938, Page 14
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