REPLY TO JAPAN

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21063, 15 June 1938, Page 7

REPLY TO JAPAN

REFUSAL TO MOVE WARSHIPS Naval Operations Against China Flooding of Extensive Areas United press Association—By Electric Telegraph* Copyright (Received June 14, 9,5 p.m.) SHANGHAI, June 14. The British gunboats at Wuhu and Klukiang have been ordered to remain there, despite the Japanese request that foreign shipping should withdraw from the 200 mile stretch of the Yangtse between Wuhu and Kukow. The British view In that the presence of the gunboats in the river is even more necessary to protect British lives and property now the Japanese drive to Hankow has begun. It is understood that Vice-Admiral Yarnell, Commander-in-Chief of the United States naval forces in the Orient, rejected the Japanese request. ATTACK ON HANKOW JAPANESE FLAGSHIP OPERATING United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyrigh t (Received June 14, 11.45 p.m.) SHANGHAI, June 14. The Japanese flagship Izumo has been refloated and has left for Nanking to direct the river attack on Hankow. Three hundred Japanese planes reached Wuhu. Yangtse Kiang floods threaten the Japanese line for many miles, necessitating a diversion of the attack on Hankow. LARGE AREA FLOODED THOUSANDS OF JAPANESE DROWNED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received June 14, 11.45 p.m.) HANKOW, June 14. The Chinese report that floods 30 feet deep on the Paishan section of the Lunghai railway drowned 5000 Japanese and entrapped 7000 near Kaifeng, where the water submerged 250 guns, 80 tanks and 100 armoured cars.