SECOND RAID ON HANGCHOW

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 180, 17 August 1937, Page 7

SECOND RAID ON HANGCHOW

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Japanese Bombers Repelled, Chinese Claim NANKOW HOLDING OUT

(By Telegraph-

WELLINGTON, This Day. The Chinese Consul has received a telegram from Nanking stating that 20 heavy Japanese bombers from Formosa attempted a second raid on Eangehow this morning. Four were shot down, and an aerial battle is still progressing. Eleven .two-motored Japanese bombers participated in the first- raid yesterday, three being shot down in the vicinity of Hangehow and five being badly damaged and forced to land in varions places in Chekiang, only three returning. Severe fighting continued at Shanghai throughout the night, with the Japanese warships shelling Chapei and the Chinese making determined attaclcs in. Yangtse-poo distriet, where additional Japanese reinforcements sought to effect a landing. Another division of Japanese regulars is expected to arrive at Shanghai to-day. The Japanese attaclcs at Nanlcow have lasted three days and have so far proved abortive. Oflieial reports placed tlie Chinese casualties at 500 and the Japanese casualties at almost double that number. Extreme tension prev^ils at Tsingtao as tlie result of an incident yesterday in which one Japanese was injured. Aecording to Chinese eye-witnesses the fracas was between two Japanese seamen and one Japanese civilian in European clothes, but the Japanese consul insisted that the victim was shot by a Chinese. II is feared that the Japanese are going to use the ineident as a pretext to start hostilities at Shantung.