BOMBING IN CHINA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1939, Page 8

BOMBING IN CHINA

DAMAGE TO FOREIGN PROPERTY JAPAN REPUDIATES RESPONSIBILITY. OFFICIAL INTIMATION. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) SHANGHAI, May 5. Chungking has again been bombed. A Japanese spokesman stated that Japan no longer would assume responsibility for the bombing of foreign property', including Consulates in unoccupied areas. BRITISH CONSULATE HIT LEGATION OFFICIAL INJURED. (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, May 5. The Chunking correspondent of the British United Press says that when the British Consulate was damaged by a bomb yesterday, the Ambassador (Sir A. Clark Kerr) was inside. The Ambassador’s secretary, Mr John Tahourdin, was injured while helping the wounded. The correspondent adds that 200,000 people have fled the city. RAIDS ON VILLAGES MANY PEOPLE KILLED. THOUSANDS MADE HOMELESS. (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) HONG KONG, May 5. Yesterday’s air raids on Swatow, from which most of the population had beep evacuated, resulted in the deaths of fifty civilians. Raids on' villages near Poklo killed 350 persons and rendered thousands homeless. Three thousand Japanese reinforcements have arrived at Canton. A hundred thousand Kwangsi troops are stationed to check a Japanese drive into Kwangsi. JAPANESE REPORT SECOND ATTACK ON NANCHANG DEFEATED. (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) TOKIO, May 5. The Japanese defeated a second attempt to capture Nanchang. They have inflicted 6000 casualties since April 30.