WIDESPREAD BOMBING
MANY DEATHS REPORTED. (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) SHANGHAI, June 25. One hundred Japanese planes borfibed a wide area of Eastern Kwantung in an attempt to halt Chinese reinforcements going to Swatow. Thirty planes wrought havoc at . Mingshing and fifty deaths are reported from Chinghai, as the result of bombings. INDIGNITIES AT TIENTSIN NEW ZEALAND AGENT AGAIN STRIPPED. LONDON. June 24. A Shanghai correspondent states that Mr Cecil Davis, New Zealand Government agent at Tientsin, was again stripped today when, with Mr John Whitewright, the son of a missionary, he was forced to queue up in the fierce sun. Mr Whitewright was compelled to dress in full view of a crowd, including foreign women. The Japanese have now promised to release Mr G. A. Smith. They previously insisted that the British authorities should deport him as an undesirable before agreeing to hand him over. Nobody with the exception of his doctor is allowed to see him. BOMBS ON CHANGTEH SERIOUS DAMAGE AND HEAVY CASUALTIES. SHANGHAI, June 24. Nineteen Japanese planes carried out seven raids on Changteh. They dropped 500 bombs, causing tremendous damage and heavy casualties.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1939, Page 5
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