EVENTS IN AMOY
JAPANESE PLANES SWEEP DEFENCES FIFTY CHINESE EXECUTED. ' THOUSANDS OF REFUGEES. (Recd This Day, 9.15 a.m.) HONG KONG, May 13. The British steamer Hongkheng has arrived here with 2300 refugees froth Amoy. The skipper, Captain Bannerman, declared that he watched sixteen Japanese planes sweeping the Chinese defences with bombs and bullets for thirteen hours. He also saw fifty Chinese captured and executed immediately by machine-guns. Food and water are running out at Kulangsu owing to the influx of thousands of refugees.
WARSHIPS ACTIVE LANDING ON NAMTANG ISLAND. (Recd This Day, 9.40 a.m.) HONG KONG, May 13. It is reported from Amoy that five Japanese battleships are off Swatow to cover a landing on Namtang Island. MUCHEN ATTACKED. FRESH CHINESE DIVISIONS DEFENDING. ißccd This Day. 9.40 a.m.) TOKIO. May 13. The Japanese are attacking Muchen. Two fresh Chinese divisions have been thrown into the defensive operations. The Japanese left wing captured the walled town of Yungcheng, sixty miles south-east of Kweiteh.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1938, Page 7
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