THE CHINA MAL
PEARL RIVER OPEN FOR SHALLOW DRAFT SHIPS
River traffic between Hong Kong and Canton, for steamers not exceeding seven feet in draft, is being resumed as from to-day. Official notification of the Can- ton Government's decision was made last night following corres- pondence with the Hong Kong Government.
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MANCHURIA –
RAILWAY MYSTERY
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The partial re-opening of the boom, however, is insufficient to al- low the passage of the riverboats of the Hong Kong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company.
The boom will be opened between
PUKOW RAID:
FERRY ESCAPES
Shanghai, To-day.
Ten were killed in yesterday's
8 am and 6 pm except on Sun-raid by Japanese planes on Pakow, days.
Naval gunboats will be able pass.
MAY BE BLOCKED AGAIN
the terminus of the railway from to Tientsin on the opposite bank of
the Yangtse from Nanking.
Object of the raid was apparent ly to destroy the railway ferry, but none of the bombs hit their mark.
Trans-Ocean.
small gun-boat which had been swak to blockade the river, was dragged from the centre of the river to the banks by salvage boats yesterday.
TRAIN FERRY ESCAPES
Steamship companies have been in-
Shanghai, To-day. formed of the decisions, but they
It is officially announced that dur- have also been warned that the river may be blocked at any moment again ing the Japanese attack on Nanking on instructions received from the yesterday the planes failed to make the direct hit on the train ferry at military authorities..
Pukow as claimed by the Japanese.
All the invading planes dropped their bombs from a very high alti-
COAST ALIVE WITH tude in face of heavy, Chinese anti-
WARSHIPS
Canton, To-day.
aircraft gunfire and in consequence few bombs hit their targets.
A squadron of eighteen Japanese The South China coast is once planes were intercepted and engaged again alive with Japanese war-by-Chinese-pursuit planes at noon over northern Kiangsu when ships, a fleet of 23 vessels being sighted yesterday by scouting making their way toward Nanking. planes, according to Chinese reOnly three reached Nanking, where they dropped several bombs on the ports.
aerodrome outside Kwanghua Gate before flying in the direction of Pukow Hua Nan.
Some were in the vicinity of Lin Tin Island, while others were seen cruising along the north-east coast of Hainan Island Our Own Cor- respondent
NEW ARMY FOR NORTH
BOMBS FALL IN RIVER
Nanking: To-day. Many casualties and very heavy damage resulted from the Japan- ese bombing raids yesterday after- Doon when Japanese planes, in their attempt to bomb the Pukow The Central Military authorities ferry wharfs, dropped eight bombs have decided to increase the amidst the dwellings of railway strength of the ex-Red forces Low workers and labourers.
Nanking, To-day.
successfully carrying on operations against the Japanese in Northern
Eight were killed and over 30 Shansi by creating the 9th Route wounded, while over 100 houses Army" with General Pang Teh-huai, were destroyed, the bombs start- General Chu Teh's right hand man, ing a conflagration which listed
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