WAR LOSSES
' HUGE TOTAL REACHED IN CHINA BIG PROPORTION OF KILLED TO WOUNDED (Recd This Day, 9.10 a.m.) SHANGHAI, June 8. It is estimated that the Chinese and Japanese losses in the year-old war total 750,000 killed and 1,750,000 wounded. CANTON RAIDS OIL STOCKS SET ON-FIRE. CANTON, June 8. Thirty-one Japanese planes flew over Canton at 10.50 this morning and successively bombed Saichuen and Wongsha stations. Oil stocks were set on fire at Wongsha, the flames leaping 50 feet into the air. The raiders withdrew at 11.15 a.m. after bombing Honan Island.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 June 1938, Page 7
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