CHINESE WAR
CHINESE ATTACK
U.S. GUNBOAT RETALIATES
‘‘United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SHANGHAI, July 31. During an engagement between the America n river bun boat Palos and Communists in the vicinity of Changsha ,fivc American sailors were wounded There are no details. It appears that the Communists opened fire on tlie Palos which replied, killing thirty.
JAPAN ALARMED.
AT CHANGSHA DESTRUCTION. TOKIO, July 31. The Japanese Government is gravely concerned, at t,he Red insurrection in China and the seizure of Changsha, involving the burning of tlie Japanese Consulate. The Government fear that the movement is spieading. Japanese warships are hastening to Hankow, where tlie Chinese Nationalist forces are inadequate for the purposes of defence, '
SITUATION SERIOUS
(Received this day at 10.30 a.m.) SHANGHAI. July 31. The situation on the Yangtze is becoming graver. News is received indicating that Communists are adiva'ucirig towards the southern bank in tile vicinity of Kiukiang, consequently imperilling Killing, the foreign holiday resort, en route. Some four hundred holiday makers have been advised immediately to evacuate. Tlie British destroyers Somme and Sirdar were hurriedly ordered from Wcihaiwei to Nanking to relieve -other, gunboats destined for upriver ports.- The position is pregnant with tragic possibilities..
COMMUNISTS ADVANCING
LOOTING AND (BURNING
SHANGHAI, July 31. Following the evacuation, . looting and burning of Changsha on Monday. Communists armies repeated their actions at Nanchang and Nanking and are now advancing on Kiukiang, necessitating the evacuation of all foreigners at Ruling, a summer mounr tain resort, by the express orders of the British . authorities. Two British destroyers were sent to Kiukiang. The State Department at Washington lias "informed the Nanking Gov= eminent that in the event of Amerb can lives and property being lost, America reserve* .all rights in the matter
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1930, Page 5
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