JAPANESE BOMBERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23940, 16 October 1939, Page 8

JAPANESE BOMBERS

RAIDS IN WEST CHINA TERRIBLE CHINESE LOSSES (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) CHUNGKING, Oct. 14. (Received Oct. 15, at 7 p.m.) Eighty-seven Japanese planes bombed four points in west China to-day. Eighteen are reported to have wiped out a third of the Nanchuan population of 50,000. Huge fires are raging to-night. Thirty-six bombed Liangshan, 18 Yuanling and 15 Chenchi. The damage at these places has not been reported. CLAM BY CHINESE JAPANESE PUSHED BACK NEW YORK, Oct. 13. The Hongkong correspondent of the Associated Press states that Chinese despatches claimed that their advance forces cut the Japanese railways in North Yochow. threatening the loss of this strategic middle Yangtse port, which would erase the most important Japanese gains since Hankow. The Chinese asserted that the Japanese are being pushed back northward in Hunan. Kiangsi. and Southern Hupeh. The Tientsin correspondent of .the Associated Press states that the Japanese military authorities announced that United States officials had offered apologies and compensation at the courtmartial of the marine responsible for the wounding of a Japanese policeman, on October 12, and therefore regarded the matter as a “ local issue.” ■ RAID BY CHINESE BOMBERS JAPANESE PLANES DESTROYED CHUNGKING, Oct. 14. (Received Oct. 15, at 11 p.m.) It is officially stated that three Chinese bombers wiped out the airfield at Hankow, destroying nearly 100 Japanese planes on the ground, after which they gave battle with chasers for 200 miles, shooting down three.