LOSS OF SHANSI
ADMITTED BY JAPANESE CITIES AND VILLAGES BURNED. UNIVERSITY SCHOOLS CLOSED. (By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright.) (Recd This Day, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, June 12. The Peking correspondent of “The Times” says a Japanese spokesman admitted the loss of the Shansi Province to the Chinese, adding: “The Japanese, after the fall of Chengchow, will mop up the Chinese brigades , occuping Shansi. Meanwhile, military necessity has compelled the burning of villages and cities.” The Japanese closed the two schools of the Catholic university, because the principal, a German priest, refused to allow students to participate in the celebration of the Japanese victory at Suchow. BOMBS ON CANTON MANY SAMPAN DWELLERS KILLED. TEXTILE FACTORY DESTROYED. (Recd This Day, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, June 12. The Hong Kong correspondent of “The Times” says twenty bombs were dropped last night in an air raid on Canton, destroying a textile factory and killing many sampan dwellers, but land casualties were small owing to the evacuation.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 June 1938, Page 8
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