Flying low over the Wenchow anchorage, Japanese naval aircraft on Tuesday morning dropped rubber balls containing messages warning the five third party merchant ships of impending Japanese naval operations against the harbour, it was revealed in Shanghai yesterday. The vessels were three "British, one Italian and one Norwegian, The ships, were urged to leave by 11 o'clock today.
Meantime, Japanese surface craft Sea ied up the Wu River to attack of these vere machine-gunned, while ese june troops. Many
those offering no resistance were taken prisoner.
Operations for the closing of the harbour by means of "dangerous objects and other pao" were going on apace ye: s it was understood,
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