AIR RAID HAVOC

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23358, 29 May 1939, Page 10

AIR RAID HAVOC

CHUNGKING VICTIMS HUNDREDS of civilians CENTRAL PARK BOMBED LONDON, May -26 Business was resumed at the Meifeng Bank, Chungking, to-day. The steps of the building were spattered ■with blood as the result of the Japanese air raids. The' city s debris has been cleaned up, the dead buried and the wounded taken to hospital. Havoc was -wreaked in Central Park, to which people flocked, believing it ■would not be bombed. It was sprajed with incendiary bombs, which killed 20 people and wounded 30. _ It is estimated that the air raid casualties number 880 killed and 760 wounded. All the victims were civilians.

JAPANS DEMAND [lnternational settlement LARGER SHARE IN CONTROL ' Independent Cable Service (Received May 28, 0.40 p.m.) LONDON, May 28 The Japanese Consul at Shanghai, who has just returned from a, visit to Tokio, stated in an interview yesterday that Japan, will insist upon a greaier share in the control of the International Settlement. . FOREIGN SHIPPING JAPANESE INTERFERENCE UNITED STATES INVOLVED LONDON. May 26 The possibility of Japanese stopping the American liner President Coolidge is widely discussed, says the Hongkong correspondent of the Daily telegraph. Such an incident, it is stated, might lead to a policy of retaliation By Britain, France and America. A message from Canton says the .Japanese have allowed the last four of the British freighters bottled up since the occupation of Canton to proceed to Hongkong. The Japanese are considering means of permitting food supplies to enter Kulangsu. BLOCKADE THREAT COMMONS DISCUSSION LONDON, May 26 Tn the House of- Commons to-day Mr. A. Henderson (Labour —Kingswinford), drew attention to Japan's threatened blockade in China. In reply, Mr. P. A. Butler, Foreign UnderSecretary, said it was because of such reports that Britain was urgently considering the protection of her shipping. Mr. Henderson: Will the Foreign Under-Secretary express the view on behalf of the Government that such a blockade would be contrary to the tules of international law? Mr. JQuilcuv- .Xjos.