The Archive · 1938

Mr. Wang Tzu-hu

Mr. Wang Tzu-hu. Minister of Industry, was head of the general affairs bureau of the National Second Army, Vice-Commander of the 20th Army of the National Revolutionary Fores or so, it was revealed to-day.

They left Wuchang Fast Station. the northern terminus of the Canton-

Hankow Railway, in a passenger train for the south shortly before the visitors arrived and subjected the station to an intensive bombing.

The officers, Lieutenant H.C.

Morea of the gunboat Cockchafer, end Lieutenant J.C.A. Ingram of the Peterel, are proceeding home on leave, after having been stationed on the Yangtze for some time.

During the raid yesterday, watchers from the former British C. cession in Hankow had a good view of the approach of the many Japanese planes from down river. Before each former British Bund shook buildings and rattled loud detonations were heard, which

throughout the windows At first it was thought that the raiders were bombing the foreign areas of Hankow but later, when palls of smoke appeared in the across the river, it was learned th: the Wuchang East Station and the Wuchang aerodrome were the ob-3ectives.

The visitors were kept to an ex high altitude because of the e anti-aircraft fire.—Later. the raiders made a beeline for the Hankow air-feld on which they Gropped nearly 100 bombs.—Reuter. and concurrently head of the political affairs section of the army. He was a member of the Sino-Japanese Economic Affairs Research Commis-

M. Michel Breal, General Manager for the Havas News Agency in the Far Fast, left yesterday for a visit to sion.

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