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DESTRUCTION IN CHINA HEAVY CASUALTIES BRITISH PROPERTY LOSS VESSELS BURNT OUT (Klee. Tel. Copyright—TJnitod Press Assn.) (Reed. Aug. 7. noon.) • LONDON. Aug. G. A report from Chungking says that 18 planes 'caused 'havoc in a large area of the city early yesterday morning. It is feared that the casualties are heavy. The Shanghai correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says that the British naval authorities have reported ih.-'t two .British Yangtse steamers were destroyed end also the Asiatic Petroleum Company’s property was destroyed and a British suiojeet was injured during two Japanese air raids in the vicinity cf Ichang. The steamers were the Jar’dine and Mathescn Company’s Kiangwo and Chiawo. which 'were moored together. A .bomb hit one directly. Both were burnt out. The guniboat Gannet attempted to extinguish the fire. Rear-Admiral 'Holt, strongly protested. A communique issued in Tokio states that Japanese naval planes .blew up GO Chinese military 'trucks and 12 warehouses at Chennankwan, near the French Ind'o-China iborder.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20009, 7 August 1939, Page 6
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