The Archive · 1938

Bombs Thrown in Belfast

Belfast, Mar. 12.

The building of the army recruiting office here was seriously damaged by a bomb late last night. A few hours earlier a monument at the Milltown cemetery was destroyed by a bomb. Nobody was hurt in either explosion.—Trans-Ocean.

A telephone message from Feng-chin, on the north bank of the Yellow River in Honan province, Opposite Kaifeng, states that the Japanese are withdrawing towards Sinhsiang, on the Peiping-Hankow Railway, north of Chengchow.

The Japanese, however; are re-Ported to be sending reinforcements to Wenhsien and Monghsien, on. the north bank. of the Yellow River, West of Chengchow—Reuter.

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