YANGTSE CONFLICT
JAPANESE CLAIM DEMOLITION OF FORT TWENTY THOUSAND CHINESE SAID TO BE TRAPPED. CONTROL OVER RIVER AREAS. (Recd This Day, 10.40 a.m.) TOKIO, July 14. The Japanese claim that planes, ships and troops co-operated and demolished the Szetzeshan fort, nicknamed the Lion Shell, twelve miles east of Kiukian, a key town on the Yangtse. It is added that 20,000 Chinese were trapped between Liuntzekiao and Taiping while attempting to cut Japanese communications. An Admiralty spokesman announced that British and American nationals would not return for some time to Nanking and other Yangtse areas under Japanese control. It was impossible at present to reopen the river generally, because of the danger of mines and booms. RAID ON CANTON. NINETY-SIX KILLED AND SIXTY MISSING. (Recd This Day, 10.40 a.m.) CANTON, July 14. An air raid killed 96 persons and wounded 144. Sixty are missing.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1938, Page 5
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