CHINESE CLAIM SUCCESSES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21085, 11 July 1938, Page 7

CHINESE CLAIM SUCCESSES

AIR RAIDS INFLICT HEAVY DAMAGE Japanese Preparing for Big Drive United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received July 10, 6.30 p.m.) HANKOW, July 10. The Chinese claim that in an air raid at' Anking they destroyed fifty Japanese planes and damaged five warships. BIG OPERATIONS IN PROSPECT JAPANESE WARNING TO • FOREIGNERS United Press Association—By Electric Teles' a ph —Copyright (Received July 10, 6.30 p.m.) SHANGHAI, July 9. ’ Foreshadowing an intensive bombardment of Kiukiang and Killing on the banks of the Yangtse, the Japanese urged foreign Consuls to evacuate their nationals and merchantmen. The warships between Hukow and Wangshikong at present number one British and one American gunboat at Kiukiang. The Japanese requested all foreign warships to fly long masthead identity streamers to prevent aerial mischances.

Nearly the entire civilian population has evacuated Kiukiang, from which place the Japanese are only 15 miles distant. The defenders are hurriedly fortifying it with sandbags and barbed wire. JAPANESE ATTACK ON RAILWAY EXPERIENCE OF HOME-GOING GERMANS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received July 10, 6.30 p.m.) HONGKONG, July 9. General Falkenhausen, leader of the German military group in China, and 28 other advisers arrived here by train, having taken seven days to traverse 600 miles from Hankow through the Japanese bombing the railway. BRITISH SAILOR’S PROTEST TREATED LIKE CRIMINALS BY THE SOVIET United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received July 10, 6.30 p.m.) SHANGHAI, July 9. Captain Johnson, master of the Therese Moller, on which P. Cairns, New Zealander, is first officer, complains bitterly that after being stranded at Hoia Bay, north east of Saghailen on October 13, Soviet troops compelled them to remain throughout the winter aboard their ice-covered ship, where they were treated like criminals and suffered intense privations. The temperatun was often 40 degrees below zero. The Chinese crew also suffered acutely. JAPAN’S NAVAL BUDGET MILLIONS FOR CONSTRUCTION

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright TOKIO, July 8. The Dome! News Agency semiofficially announces a naval Budget of £46,600,000, covering all costs and including construction.