Heavy Fighting for Kiangyin
— Preaa Assn.-
fall expected soon Capture Would Smash Chinese Defence Line ADVANCE ON NANKING
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(Heceived 30, 11.45 a.m.) TQKIO, Nov. 29. The Japanese admit that heavy fighting is proceeding at Kiangyin, but the city's fall is expeeted at any hour. Thus the second "Hindenburg Line" trom Kiangyin to Wusih would be eliminated and onlv a few minor iortifications 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 tlie Shanghai-Nanking and Hang-chow-Nanking railways. The Japanese have captured Ghanschow. Forty persons were killed and 100 were wounded when a Chinese passenger train was bombed- at Shuancheng. Th© 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-aeroplane parts for Hongkong consigned to (Jhina.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 57, 30 November 1937, Page 5
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