100 Japanese Killed When Gen. Chiang Kai-shek Mine Explodes Near Wusih, Although Ningpo has been bombed Chinese Claim by Japanese planes eight times since April 28, the heavy casualties and Indicating the difficulties the damage to property have not broken Japanese forces in Chekiang -and the morale of the people but, on Kiangsu are undergoing in the face the contrary, have strengthened their of the threatened and much publicized support to General Chiang Kai-shek counter offensive to be launched by and his resistance policy to such an the Chinese, more than 100 Japanese extent that they will discard all soldiers are reported to have been sacrifices. killed and injured when a train This is the gist of telegrams sent carrying them was blown skyward to General Chiang by the Ningpo by mines buried by guerillas near Chamber of Commerce and the the Hwang Ling Cheng railway sta-Anti-Japanese and Self-defence Comtion, between Wusih and Changchow mittee in Ningpo denying the Japanese on the Shanghai-Nanking Railway. rumour alleged to have been broad-Sporadic fighting has been going on cast from Shanghai stating that as in railway zones and plans have been a result of a secret meeting repre-made for retaking Nanking. sentatives have been sent to Shang-The incident occurred on May 14 hai by influential people in Ningpo but news only leaked out to the to start an anti-Chungking move-Chinese press here yesterday when ment. it was reported that the locomotive The Chamber telegram states that and the three coaches immediately behind it were destroyed as a result the 700,000 people in Ningpo stand of the terrific explosion. "Several solidly behind General Chiang Kai-passengers were stated to have been shek taking orders only from the injured in the mishap. Several hund-leader and supporting the Kuomin-red Japanese soldiers were sent to tang. The people have long realized the scene of disaster from Wusih but that since the hostilities have entered apart from sending the injured to the the second stage the more they strug-Wusih Base Hospital and burying the gle the more they are nearer to the dead they could do nothing by way goal of final victory and in view of of reprisal. this they do not care what harm The counter offensive has just been will come to them, it is stated. The slarted along and in the vicinity of telegram promises full support and the Nanking-Hangchow Highway, acurges General Chiang to continue cording to other Chinese reports. the resistance.
Fighting has been in progress on the A Chinese report from Ningpo outskirts of Hangchow and in the reveals that, as a result of the bomb-vicinity of Kashing, Changhing and ing, Ningpo has suffered the loss of other railway districts. It is claimed more than 1,000 houses and between that Tsungteh in Chekiang has been 700 and 800 casualties. The busi-recaptured. ness section of the district has been General Tang Sen-chi who was the badly damaged. The report further garrison commander in Nanking when states that a British Baptist Mission the Japanese forces attacked that city church in Hwa Yuan Hong and a more than a year ago is on his way German cold storage company in to Chekiang to direct operations with Tung Tu Road are among the a view to recapturing the former damaged buildings. capital. This is part of the counter offensive plan decided at a military conference recently held in Kinhwa, Swinvon's Medical Officer of Chekiang.
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