EVENTS IN CHINA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1939, Page 6

EVENTS IN CHINA

OFFICIAL INJURED BY GUNMEN IN CANTON TWO JAPANESE WARSHIPS SUNK. ACCORDING TO CHINESE REPORT. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, August 8. The Hong Kong correspondent of “The Times” says the Japanese have reopened the Canton River, allowing the passage of a British ship fortnightly. Chinese gunmen wounded the Chinese chairman of the Canton Chamber of Commerce when he emerged from a building in the company of Japanese advisers. The Chinese claim to have sunk two Japanese warships while repelling an attack on Wangmoon. where additional warships are assembling. Foreign sources confirm the sinking of a destroyer, either by a mine or a broadside from a sixteenth century muzzle-load-ing battery. The Japanese bombed Wuchow, killing 200, wounding 700, rendering 6 000 homeless and damaging the American Baptist Mission. FLOODS AT TIENTSIN LARGE AREA INUNDATED IN CHINESE QUARTER. WATERS CONTINUE TO RISE. (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) TIENTSIN, August 8. Feverish preparations have begun against floods, which are slowly creeping up to the level of the streets. Swirling waters from the Paiho River have already covered a large area of the Chinese quarter. Breaches have been made in the dykes, thus flooding the plains to the west and south, but . the water is still rising at Tientsin.