HEAVY FIGHTING

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVI, Issue 33, 1 December 1937, Page 3

HEAVY FIGHTING

JAPANESE ADVANCE ON NANKING.

TOKIO; November 29.

The Japanese admit that heavy fighting is proceeding at Kiangyin, but the city’s fall is expected at any hour. Thus the second “Hindenburg Line” from Kiangyin to Wusih would be eliminated and only a few minor fortifications would lie between the Japanese and Nanking. The Japanese are reported to have captured Ishing, west of Lake Taihu, and are now advancing on Nanking along the Shanghai-Nanking and Hangchow-Nanking railways. The Japanese have captured Changchow. Forty persons were killed and 100 were wounded when a Chinese passenger train was bombed at Shuaneheng. The Domei News Agency says that when the Danish freighter Marchenmaersk arrived at Kobe from New York, the police discovered that the vessel was carrying bombing-aero-plane parts for Hongkong consigned to China.