HAVOC IN CANTON

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 July 1938, Page 7

HAVOC IN CANTON

FIRST AIR RAID FOR NEARLY A MONTH BOMBS DROPPED FROM 10,000 FEET. HOUSES AND BOATS DESTROYED. CANTON, July 12. Flying at a height of 10,000 feet Japanese bombers made an exceptionally accurate raid for an hour today, the first in nearly a month. The Wongsha district suffered most though the previous evacuation of the population minimised the casualties. The greatest havoc was among the junks and sampans on the riverside. Scores of houses were demolished and the north station was also hit where the damage is likely to rupture the Hankow rail service. Twenty planes simultaneously bombed Wuchang. WUCHANG BOMBED. TWO HUNDRED KILLED AND WOUNDED. (Recd This Day, 9.45 a.m.) HANKOW, July 12. Two hundred persons were killed or wounded in an air raid on Wuchang. A wing of the hospital there was demolished and many patients and members of the staff were crushed by the debris. • The raid on Canton resulted in 23 persons being killed and 38 wounded. ADVANCE ON KIUKIANG. The Japanese advancing along the Yangtse are within 10 miles of Kiukiang, where the Chinese are destroying everything likely to be of assistance to the invaders. Fears are felt for foreign property, including British wharves and warehouses.