CHINESE CAMPAIGN
JAPANESE UNITS SWAMPED AIRMEN BOMB RAILWAYS (Received October 4, 6.30 p.m.) SHANGHAI, Oct. 3 -Heavy rain on, the Yangtse front has raised the level of the river. The overflowing water has swamped roads and stalled '"► Japanese mechanised units. Chinese pursuit aeroplanes! drove off bombers operating on the south, bank of the Yangtse. Japanese airmen bombed the CantonHankow and Canton-Kowloon railways. Japanese' approaching the Hukuang railway claim that they severely defeated a Chinese force. The Japanese captured' Tung-tow-shan, a strategic point in the Hankow defences.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23160, 5 October 1938, Page 16
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