YANGTSE BATTLES
HEAVY LOSSES BY JAPANESE REPORTED EXTENDED AIR RAIDING. CHANGKING BOMBED FOR FIRST TIME. By Telegraph —Press Association. Copyright. SHANGHAI, October 5. Japanese aeroplanes for the first time raided Chungking, the new war time capital of China, killing six people. Chinese trench mortars bombarded a Japanese transport on the' Yangtsekiang, killing two and wounding four Japanese. War correspondents reported from Chungking that the Japanese had lost 40,000 killed and 6000 wounded in two months’ fighting on the banks of the Yangtse-kiang. Heavy rain on the Yangtse front has raised the level of the river and swamped the roads, thereby stalling the Japanese mechanised units. Chinese pursuit planes drove off bombers operating on the south bank of the Yangtse. Japanese planes bombed the Canton-Hankow and CantonKowloon railways.
Japanese approaching the Hukuang railway claim that they have severely defeated the Chinese. The Japanese have captured Tungtowshan, a strategic point in the Hankow defences.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1938, Page 7
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