Immediately after the capture of Anking, the capital of Anhwei, by the Japanese on June 12, Kiukiang was transformed into a military camp, the two Americans were said to have related, Able-bodied Chinese were impressed into labour gangs to dig trenches and to erect sand-bag defences, while troops poured into the town in daily-increasing numbers. Included were the 53rd Central Army Division, the Sith Hunanese Division, and about three others.
Chinese with means began to evacuate late in June. When the Japanese seized Hukow on July 4, business in Kiukiang was suid to have come to a standstill, Japanese Troops Return to Camp Kizukiang photographed in the even tong march, On Sunday, the spokesman quoted the Americans as saying, the Chinese troops began retreating. Some fled in Junks to the northern bank of the Yangize, others headed upriver.
Soldiery and the riff-ral among refugees joined in a "looters' holiday." The hospital doors were tightly shut to prevent any incursions by those Jawless elements, the spokesman related. perty Damage Shanghai, July 28.
Artillery duels between Japanese war vessels proceeding up the Yangtze and Chinese batteries within the compounds of the Asiatic Petroleum Company and the Standard Vacuum Company, three miles below Kiukiang, did not cause damage to the installations, a Japanese naval [spokesman said yesterd 'The Chins ese positions within the of companies' installations and just outside were also bombed from the air, but none of the tanks or other buildings Huge Explosion at Mukden Arsenal Peiping, July 26.
Suggestions that all is not well in Manchoukuo are borne out by foreign reports received here of an enormous explosion in the Mukden Arsenal on Saturday. This explosion, it is stated, was caused by incendiaries. Ammunition of a total value of ¥.1,000,000 is said to have been destroyed—Reuter. was seriously affected, he added on the basis of reports from the Yangtze front, Shells, however, had damaged the Jardine, Matheson Company building in the former British concession following a Japanese bombardment fof the area in order to. dislodge Chinese machine-gunners in two. sandbag positions directly below the building, according to the spokesman.
Other foreign property, the spokes man charged, had been broken into by Chinese troops, who in many instances constructed sandbag defences in the buildings. Extensive looting and destruction of furniture by the Chinese was also alleged.
Mystifying rifle and machine-gun fire was audible on July 26 south Jof Kiukiang, the spokesman said. The area from which the firing was fneard was devoid of Japanese troops, which led to the assumption that) engagements were taking place between retreating Chinese troops fand the "supervisory corps" detailed to prevent desertions. The Chinese retreat continued on July 26, he said.
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