HEAVY SHELLING FEARED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19679, 11 July 1938, Page 5

HEAVY SHELLING FEARED

TOWNS ON YANGTSE ,IAPANESE WARNING (Reed. July 11, 9 a.m.) LONDON, July 9. Foreshadowing an intensive bombardment of Kiukiang and Kuling, on the banks of the Yangtse River, the Japanese have urged foreign consuls to evacuate nationals and merchantmen. Warships between Hukow and Wangshikong at present number one British and one American gunboat. The Japanese authorities requested that foreign warships should fly long identity streamers at the masthead to prevent aerial mischances. A message from Hankow says that the Chinese claim that in the air raid on Nanking, they destroyed 50 Japanese planes and damaged five warships. BOMBING OF RAILWAY TRAVELLERS DELAYED GERMANS ON WAY HOME (Rccd. July 11, 9 a.m.) HONGKONG, July 9. General Falkenhausen, who is returning to Germany after having officiated as adviser to the Chinese army, and other advisers arrived by train at Hongkong to-day, having taken seven days to traverse GOO miles from Hankow through Japanese bombing of the railway. RAT AND CAT SKINS OX-HIDE SUBSTITUTE ECONOMY IN JAPAN (Reed. July 11, 10 a.m.) TOKIO, July 10. The Japanese Ministry of Agriculture lias admonished the people not to throw away dead rats, cats or dogs, but to sell them to the authorities, because the skins make excellent substitutes for ox hide, especially in the preparation of knapsacks for the army troops.