A CITY ROCKS

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20273, 16 August 1937, Page 7

A CITY ROCKS

BOMBS AND SHELLING. JAPANESE ATTACK NANKING. THREE PLANES BROUGHT DOWN. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright (Received August 16, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, August 15. The Japanese carried tiie war to Ihe Chinese capital this afternoon, eight war planes dropping bombs on tiie main thoroughfare and aerodrome in Nanking, two near the Ming Palace. Ten Chinese planes took off and claim that they brought down three machines. The city rocked with the impact of the bombs and anti-aircraft fire. The damage and loss of life cannot at present be ascertained. WAR PLANE IN FLAMES. BROUGHT DOWN BY JAPANESE. BRITISH WARSHIP ARRIVES. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Aug. 16, It a.m.'' SHANGHAI, Aug. 15. An anti-aircraft gun mounted on the top of the Japanese headquarters brought down a Chinese warplane in flames on a Chinese house at Chapei. The British warship Suffolk has arrived and is disembarking marines to join Hie men from the Cumberland. JAPANESE CHARGES. RESPONSIBILITY OF CHINA. HAS NO TERRITORIAL DESIGNS. BRING NANKING TO REASON. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright (Received August 16, 11 a.m.) TOKIO, August 15. Following a meeting of the Cabinet that lasted three and a-half hours, a communique lias been Issued. It urges the Nanking Government to re-coirsider its anti-Japanese policy, which is responsible for the present deplorable situation. The communique claims that Japan has exercised her utmost patience and restraint, and has endeavoured to reach a local settlement of the recent incidents. The Japanese Government deplores the necessity for drastic punitive measures against lawless Chinese troops. •» Japan harbours no territorial designs. She only Intends to bring the Nanking Government and the Kuomintang Party to reason. Japan will spare no effort to safeguard foreign rights and interests. A NEW OFFENSIVE. LAUNCHED BY JAPANESE. ON WAY TO INNER MONGOLIAUnited Press Assn.— Elec. Tel. Copyright (Received Aug. 16, 3 p.m.) TOKIO, Aug. 15. It is reported that Japanese troops In North China have launched an offensive on Nankow Pass, eu route to Inner Mongolia. DROPPING OF BOMBB. RESULT OF ACCIDENT. CHINESE GOVERNMENT’S REGRET. INNOCENT PEOPLE KILLED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. WELLINGTON, Monday. Tiie Chinese Consul has received tiie , following from Nanking:— Referring to Ihe dropping of several | bombs from two Chinese aeroplanes at 3.40 a.m. on August 15 in the international settlement and the French concession at Shanghai, which resulted i iu tiie death or wounding of a large number of innocent people, a spokes- | man of the military command said that it was a most deplorable incident. Upon investigation it was found that the aeroplanes in question, while engaged in operations against Japanese warships and other military objects, were fired upon by Japanese antiaircraft guns, and as'a result the pilots were injured and their bomb racks were so damaged that the bombs released themselves, descending upon places which had never been intended ns an objective of attack. The selfrelease "f the bombs was thus an unavoidable accident, not only without Hie slightest intention of llie aviators but really against their own wish. That innocent people should bear the consequences of war in such an unexpected manner, remarked the spokesman, is indeed most regrettable. It is all the more regrettable when it is learned that most of those killed and wounded by tin- Chinese weapons of war are Chinese, and that those few foreigners who unfortunately shared j I lie same fate, had been friends of | Renewed orders have been glv°n to | Ihe lighting forces, lie added, to avoid hostilities as far as possible in that part of llie international settlement <*r Shanghai which is not being used by j and in the whole ..f tiie French con j ll)P loss of many innocent li\es but b*»- j yond Hie control of llie Chinese emu- : batauts, might uot occur aga’e