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EIGHT PERSONS IN PINGKIANG KILLED INCLUDING BRITISH SUBJECT. PROTEST MADE TO JAPAN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 22. The town of Pingkiang was bombed on March 15 by 18 Japanese planes, when eight persons in the compound of the Methodist Mission were killed, including a British missionary, Albert Leigh. The British Ambassador in Tokio, Sir Robert Craigie, has been instructed to protest. KEV TOWN OCCUPIED SPECTACULAR CAMPAIGN LIKELY IN SOUTH CHINA. SPEED OF MECHANISED DIVISIONS. (Received This Day. 9.45 'a.m.) TOKIO, March 23. Through the hitherto unsurpassed speed of mechanised divisions the Japanese have occupied Fengsin, the key town of Nanchang.
A spokesman said the forces in South China were preparing a spectacular campaign. Fighting is continuing in Kaingshi. where more towns have been occupied.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 March 1939, Page 5
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127MISSION BOMBED Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 March 1939, Page 5
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