FLOODS TAKE THOUSANDS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19657, 15 June 1938, Page 5

FLOODS TAKE THOUSANDS

ARMAMENTS SUBMERGED TOKIO CHARGES FRANCE SUPPLY OF MUNITIONS (Eloc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. June 15, 11 a.m.) LONDON, June 14. It is reported from Shanghai that the Yangtse-Kiang floods threaten the line of the Japanese for many miles, necessitating a diversion of the attack on Hankow.

Chinese reports from Hankow state that the flood waters are 30ft. deep in the Paishan section of the Lunghai railway and have drowned 5000 Japanese and entrapped 7000 near Kaifeng, where the surge also submerged 250 guns, 80 tanks and 100 armeured cars. Three hundred Japanese planes are reported to have reached Wuhu today. Tokio reports state that despite French denials of a secret FrancoChinese arms agreement, the newspaper Kukomin Shimbun declares:— “France, whose aiiitude is Outrageous, is materially helping China. French airmen and military advisers are replacing the returning American and German advisers. Anns and ammunition are arriving through French Indo-China, which, when Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek's administration moves to Yunanfu, will be involved in the maelstrom ot the Sino-Japanese hostilities.”