JAPAN’S ADVANCE HALTED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20895, 26 November 1937, Page 9

JAPAN’S ADVANCE HALTED

DETERMINED STAND BY CHINESE MERCILESS AIR RAIDS RESUMED United Prees Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received November 25, 6.30 p.m.) SHANGHAI, November 24. With the arrival of fresh troops, the Chinese are making a determined bld to stop the Japanese advance on the Wushing front. It is claimed that the Japanese were forced to yield ground while the Chinese are heroically resisting in the streets of Wushing. The Japanese army spokesman said that a halt has been called on the whole front for the purpose of reforming the lines. AIR RAID ON NANKIN COLD-BLOODED KILLING OF CIVILIANS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copvrlgbt SHANGHAI, November 24. Forty persons, Including five children were killed in an air raid on Nankin. Eight machines bombed the heart of the city. The fronts of shops and houses were ripped off. Japanese bombs have damaged the National Art Gallery. More than a hundred civilians were killed in Japanese air raids on Canton and Honan, across the river. Large parte of Canton’s slum areas were wrecked.

A Canton message reports that Honan Island is a most gruesome sight after half-an-hour’s bombing from the air, in which the raiders used BOOlbs bombs. The whole city was shaken, and sections of it reduced to shambles. It is believed that there are at least 162 dead and missing. Many of the victims were blown to pieces, and others so mutilated that they are unrecognisable. Armies of coolies are digging among the ruins recovering further bodies.

Four Japanese warplanes, according to Chinese reports, have bombed Changsha, killing 200 people and Wrecking shops and houses. CANTON IN DANGER FEARS OF JAPANESE AGGRESSION United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright LONDON, November 24. The Hongkong correspondent of "The Dally Telegraph” reports that fears have increased that Japan is preparing a large scale invasion of the south coast. These fears are heightened by a report from Amoy fat three divisions of Japanese troops are aboard warships off Formosa awaiting orders to Invade the Canton area. This is to be viewed most gravely owing to the danger of Incidents involving British interests. “While I was flying to Hongkong from Saigon, I saw Japanese warships steaming almost under the guns of the new Stanley fortress. Among them was an aircraft-carrier from which Japanese ’planes are being sent to attack •Canton." Inhabitants Warned The Japanese have warned the inhabitants of Canton to evacuate the city as it wUI henceforth be the subject of Indiscriminate bombing. Food riots have broken out in the French Concession at Shanghai. Thousands of ragged refugees besieged the rice shops, the police dispersing the mobs by baton charges. All food shops are now guarded.