and while the battle against the defending Chinese was still raging, Japanese planes dropped leaflets requesting foreigners to leave the island and foreign ships to evacuate from nearby waters.
Every care was promised to safeguard the interests of third Powers, but it was added that foreigners and ships remaining would do so at their own risk—Reuter, bitter Fighting Shanghai, May 12.
Bitter fighting was in progress on tug. Amoy Island yesterday morning 5 a strong Japanese naval landing party" steadily extended its id of operations, Japanese naval spokesman here announced.
More than a half of Amoy Island, he said, was in Japanese hands at that tine "and the situation was Geyelopling satisfactorily" for the nding party.
Siapanese casualties in the course of Tuesday's (Moy 10) fighting. were put by the spokesman at "about ten filed" and) wounded."
He. emphatically denied Chinese claims ihat-more than 100 Japanese were killed during the landing opera-ons "and additional 78. were taken
soldiers were said by the spokesman Numerous dead bodies of Chinese {o have been found by the Japanese buejockets, when they reached. the shore.
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