YANGTSE FLOODS
ENDANGERING JAPANESE FORCES DROWNING OF 5000 MEN REPORTED. OTHERS SAID TO BE TRAPPED. SHANGHAI, June 14. The Japanese flagship Idzumo has been refloated and has left for Nanking to direct the river attack on Hankow. Three hundred Japanese planes have also reached Wuhu. The Yangtse floods are threatening the Japanese line for many miles, necessitating a diversion of the attack on Hankow.
A Chinese report from Hankow states that the floods are 30 feet deep in the Paishan section of the Lunghai railway and that 5000 Japanese Avere drowned. Seven thousand are entrapped near Kaifeng, where 250 guns, 80 tanks and 100 armoured cars are submerged.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 June 1938, Page 7
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