WAR IN CHINA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1940, Page 5

WAR IN CHINA

f JAPANESE AERODROME SHELLED FOURTEEN BOMBERS BLOWN UP. IMPORTANT RIVER PORT RECAPTURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, October 13. Chungking reports that for the first time since the war started Chinese artillery shelled the Japanese aerodrome at Ichang, blowing up 14 bombers. The “Central News” (Hong Kong) claims the recapture of Matang, a port on the Yangtze River, in the northernmost part of the Kiangsi Province, severing the Japanese land and water communications between Anking and Kiukiang. KUNMING BOMBED KUNMING. October 13. the United States Consulate was slightly damaged and windows of the British and German Consulates shattered when Japanese aircraft made a dive-bombing attack on Kunming (a Chinese junction base on the Burma Road). A dense pall of smoke hung over the city after the bombardment. DEVASTATING RAIDS DOMEI AND OTHER REPORTS. (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) , SHANGHAI, October 14. ) Chinese and foreign advices from • Kunming report that 27 Japanese planes bombed, strafed and virtually levelled Kunming on Sunday. There were few casualties. Most of the residents took shelter in the British and German Consulates. A Domei News Agency correspondent, in a message from an undisclosed air base, said that on Monday six squadrons made a surprise raid on Wanhsien and Szechwan, devastatingly bombed military positions and destroyed Chinese artillery positions near Ichang.