WUCHOW BOMBED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23883, 10 August 1939, Page 11

WUCHOW BOMBED

RAID BY JAPANESE TWO HUNDRED KILLED BAPTIST MISSION DAMAGED (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, Aug. 8. The Hongkong correspondent of The Times says the Japanese have reopened the Canton River, allowing the passage of a British ship every fortnight. Chinese gunmen wounded the Chinese chairman of the Canton Chamber of Commerce as he emerged from a building in the company of Japanese advisers. The Chinese claim to have sunk two Japanese warships while repelling an attack at Wangmoon, where additional warships are assembling. Foreign sources confirm the sinking of a destroyer either by mine or a broadside from a sixteenth century muzzle-loading battery.

The Japanese bombed Wuchow, killing 200 and wounding 700, rendering 6000 homeless, and damaging the American Baptist Mission. FLOODS IN TIENTSIN THE WATERS STILL RISING TIENTSIN, Aug. 8. Feverish preparations have begun against the floods which are slowly creeping up the level streets. Swirling waters from the Paiho River have already covered a large area of the Chinese quarter. Breaches have been made in the dykes, thus flooding the plains to the west and south, but the water is still rising in Tientsin. ALLEGED ESPIONAGE ARRESTS IN TOKIO TOKIO, Aug. 8. Two Canadians and four Chinese were arrested at Huchdw for alleged espionage on behalf of Britain. FINANCE FOR CHINA A LOAN FROM RUSSIA LONDON, Aug. 8. The British United Press correspondent at Chungking says officials confirm that Russia is lending China £28,000,000. THE TOKIO DISCUSSIONS RESUMPTION DELAYED TOKIO, Aug. 8. Sir Robert Craigie and the Japanese diplomat, Mr Kato, met for an hour and decided on a further delay in the resumption of the talks. General Itagaki has called a meeting of high officers of the army after the inner Cabinet meeting. ANTI-BRITISH CAMPAIGN EFFECT IN NORTH CHINA (Independent Cable Service) LONDON, Aug. 8. The British Chamber of Commerce at Tsingtao has written to the London Chamber of Commerce stating that many large Japanese business houses in Tsingtao are revolting against the anti-British campaign in North China, which is engineered by the Japanese Army. They refuse to allow soldiers to plaster abusive posters on their walls. The letter says that during the demonstrations Japanese mills were closed to allow Chinese employees to attend. Each adult present was given 30 cents, and children five cents. The Chinese shops were ordered to send a representative or pay a fine. Army authorities on the spot are responsible for the demonstrations. FRACAS AT SWATOW BRITISH RATINGS INVOLVED HONGKONG, Aug. 9. (Received Aug. 10, at 1 a.m.) Unarmed ratings from the destroyer Tenedoes were involved in a fracas with Chinese when a mob surrounded the T.-itish Consulate at Swatow, entered the compound, stoned the building, and shouted anti-British slogans. One Chinese was injured. The Japanese Consul. Mr Takai, demanded a British admission of the sailors' complicity in the trouble and demanded punishment, compensation, and an apology. The Japanese landed at Paishahan and closed Port Haimeng.