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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
WANTON ATTACK ON HOSPITAL
American Flag Prominent On Waichow Mission JAPANESE ATTACKERS TOO AIR RAID
LOW TO MAKE MISTAKE
FULL STORY TOLD NANKIN
BY
DIRECTOR
"STRIKE"
From the story related this afternoon in an in- RUMOUR DENIED
Rumours of a strike thre
Australian ran finer
by
terview with the "China Mail" by Mr. P. V. Thomas, director of the Seventh-Day Adventist Mission in Waichow, who has just arrived in the Colony, the bombing of the Mission Hospital yesterday was aed to be unfounded when en wanton attack on the part of the Japanese aircraft morning.
on Tines similar to that which is tying up the Severn Leigh,
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quiries were made on board this
Inactivity aboard the ship was Mr. Thomas declared that the airmen could not stated to be due to the fact that have failed to see that their objective had no mili- the owners the B. and A. Line, are tary significance and furthermore at the low altindecided as to her next port of tude to which they descended in order to drop Japan on Saturday last) their bombs, they could not have failed to notice two large American flags flying on the extremities of the buildings.
call (she was scheduled to sail for
ON CANTON RADIO STATION
Japa
Fate last
their att less stat the city
Chines
Air F brought
ers Our Own Corres
50 CHOLERA CASES
Fifty-one cases of
reported to the Health Authorities in the 48 hours ended dnight might.
Of these 24 occurred in Victoria and 11 in Kowloom.
the same period three cases of typhoid fever, one of diptheria, ona of dysentery and one of paerpe
fever, were reported.
The Nankin is carrying the in- And to the fact that her cargo dian crew of the s.s. Talamba, has not been fully discharged ow wrecked in the recent typhoon, and ing to the shortage of godown awaiting instructions as to where
they space and coolie labour.
It is mader It is hoped, however, that she stood
amba crew will A full report has been supplied to the American will be in a position to sail to-be-dise
rked when the Nankin morrow evening. Consul-General in Hong Kong.
The Mission grounds in which the hospital is situated, cover an area of a little over an acre and so accurate were the Japanese pilots that no fewer than seven bombs fell within the compound fortun- ately without inflicting any direct hits on buildings and causing only two casualties.
"First reports received yesterday us that the planes were Japanese, morning warned us that Japanese received a bomb-splinter in his
planes were flying in our direc-thigh.
tion," said Mr. Thomas Subse There was then quite a panic. quently, however, we were told Aided by the nurses who that the planes which had then markably cool, the patients who come into view were Chimese and mbered about 15 were
that there was
alarm. I saw the quite distinctly
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cause for as quickly as possible and
planes, over into the far corner of the
pound which appeared to
them flew over at
forma
the safest place, owing to the pro- ximity of a large pond.
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