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THREAT OF AN INTENSIVE BOMBARDMENT JAPAN URGES DEPARTURE OF FOREIGNERS IDENTIFYING STREAMERS FOR WARSHIPS By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. SHANGHAI, July 9. Foreshadowing an intensive bombardment of Kiakiang and Ruling, on the banks of the Yangtse, the Japanese have urged foreign consuls to evacuate their nationals and merchantmen. Warships between Kukow and Wangshikong at present consist of one British and one American gunboat at Kiukiang. Japan has requested all foreign warships to fly at the masthead identity streamers to prevent any aerial mischances. CHINESE CLAIM FIFTY PLANES DESTROYED HANKOW, July 10. The Chinese claim in an air raid on Anking they destroyed 50 Japanese planes and damaged five warships. MILITARY ADVISERS GERMANS REACH HONG KONG HONG KONG, July 9. General Falkenhausen, German military adviser to the Chinese Government, and 28 others advisers, have arrived here by train, having taken seven days to traverse the 600 miles from Hankow - through Japanese having bombed the railway.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1938, Page 7
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