JAPANESE DISASTER
TRANSPORT STRIKES MINE AT LEAST 300 DROWNED OR KILLED. SURVIVORS ATTACKED BY GUERILLAS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright I Received This Day. 12.35 p.m.) LONDON. August 15. The "Daily Herald’s” Hong Kong correspondent says at least 300 Japanese soldiers are believed to have been drowned or killed when a 5.400 tons transport from Formosa to Canton struck a mine near Wangmoon. the vessel, which was carrying troops for a new offensive against the CantonHankow Railway, went down before all the lifeboats were launched, but Chinese guerillas caused the heaviest casualties after the survivors had reached shore. They were saved from annihilation by the arrival of a Japanese destroyer.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1939, Page 6
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