FIGHTING RENEWED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1939, Page 5

FIGHTING RENEWED

SOME SUCCESS CLAIMED BY CHINESE JAPANESE DRIVEN BACK IN SHANSI. LANDING REPELLED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) CHUNGKING. August G. The Chinese have driven the Japanese from Shansi to East. Shansi. They captured Mingkiang. In the course of a Hankow counter-offensive, the Chinese forced back the Japanese to their warships, after a recent landing at Wangmoon. BOMBING RAID TRUCKS AND WAREHOUSES BLOWN UP. NEAR BORDER OF INDO-CHINA. (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) TOKIO, August 6. A communique states that Japanese naval planes blew up sixty Chinese military trucks and twelve warehouses' at Channankwan, near the French Indo-China border. BRITISH STEAMERS DESTROYED ON YANGTSE. ONE DIRECTLY HIT BY BOMB. (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON. August G. The Shanghai correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says the British naval authorities have reported that two British Yangtse steamers were destroyed, also that the Asiatic Petroleum Company's property was destroyed and a British subject injured. during two Japanese air raids in the vicinity of Ichang. The steamers were Jardine and Matheson's Kiangwo and Chiawo, which were moored together. A bomb hit one directly and both were burnt out. The gunboat Gannet attempted to extinguish the fire. Rear-Admiral Holt has strongly protested. BOMBED AGAIN FEARS OF HEAVY CASUALTIES IN CHUNGKING.' CHUNGKING. August 6. Eighteen planes caused havoc in a large area of the city last night. II is feared the casualties are heavy.