CHINESE OPEN FIRE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23573, 6 February 1940, Page 7

CHINESE OPEN FIRE

JAPANESE TRANSPORT AMERICAN GUNBOAT NEAR AMBASSADOR ON BOARD (Received February 5, 5.5 p.m.) A: . . NEW YORK, Feb. A The Japanese Army spokesman stated ' to-day ..that Chinese artillery endangered the gunboat Luzon, carrying the United States Ambassador .to China, Mr. Nelson Johnson, and Admiral William Glassfor'd near Nanking and that whenA a' Japanese transport 'was 500.. yards ' the Luzon ?shrapnel fell around both craft,•; says the Shanghai correspondent of the AssociatedPress of America. ' • . " •'-> Mr. Johnson said the shells were fired at the transport and not- at -the Luzon. The. firing was lightj probably from a single gun. NEW BOMBING RAID FRENCH INDOCHINA AJAPANESE ATTACK RAILWAY (Received February o, 5.5 p.m.) SHANGHAI, Feb. 4 Twenty-seven Japanese bombers" are said to bare participated in a, further raid on the Hanoi-Kunming "railwayj French-Indo China,- on. Saturday. They stopped communication- on additional sections of the line. : -'.s

Bombs were chiefly' dropped on the Kaiyuan yards, 100 miles from the French Indo-China border. The Japanese state that the raids will continue as long as the French permit the conveyance of Chinese military supplies.