The Archive · 1938

Chinese Surprised

The Chinese forces near the point Gaimusho Hend Tokyo, Mar. 17.

Hiroshi Watanabe was sentence ed to three years imprisonment and Kakubei Matsumoto and Shinsuke Minagawa to one year each for conviction this evening on charges of plotting the assassination of Mr. Koki Hirota.

Foreign Minister, in 1936.—United Press. building and the new market place. The bomb was small and apparently a stray one. Several persons were injured, They were immediately taken to the hospital for treatment Reuter.

Big Nanchang Raid In the most spectacular and largest air raid since the outbreak of the hostilities, eighty Japanese naval planes at noon yesterday attacked Nanchang, Capital of Kiangsi.

Extensive damage, a naval spokesman announced last night, was inflicted on both the old and the new Aerodromes. At the old airfield, all flying facilities have been "completely wrecked," the officer claimd, while six grounded planes were blown to bits.

Details of damage inflicted upon ihe new Aerodrome or of the aerial combat which featured the raid were Simultaneously with the revision cf|"°t available by 6 o'clock last night.

All the Japanese aircraft which participated in the raid returned ately to their bases, the spokesman said.

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