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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
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BUTTER
MURDER RAIDS
ON CANTON CONTINUE Relays Of Planes Bomb City This Morning
NEW YORK LAWYER'S SON FOUND SLAIN
New Rochelle, Long Island,
To-day.
The wire-bound body of Peter
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Levine, who was the 12-year-old
A.A. Gun Splinters JAPANESE
Falling Into Shameen
Canton, 10.50 a.m., To-day.
About twenty planes took part in the resumption of bombing of Canton this morning, when about forty bombs were dropped by relay after relay of raiders.
it
son of a wealthy lawyer and was Once again bombs fell in residential districts, and
is feared that dreadful toll has been taken of civilian lives.
kidnapped three months ago, has been found by detectives on the shore at Davenport Neck, Long Island Sound.
Young Levine disappeared on his way home from school, and a note demanding ransom of $40,000 was later found on the porch of his father's house.
The raiders were trying hard to hit the Government offices in Central Park, but hitherto without success, although buildings in the vicinity again suffered severely, with an attendant loss of life. Saichuen, where the water- works. and power station are
situated, also came in for its (Continued from Next. Col.) share of attention.
ALLEGE FRENCH ADVISERS HANKOW-BOUND
Shanghai, To-day.
French military advisers, to re- place the German advisers who have been recalled by Germany, are
on their way to Hankow via Yunnan Province, according to a Japanese despatch which has, however, not yet been confirmed in foreign or Chinese quarters.
It is stated that France and China entered into a treaty be- fore, the advisers.were sent. The agreement concerns railways con- necting China with French Indo- China and certain privileges have been given France.
Meanwhile, an intense anti-air-continues the despatch. Though the head, hands-and-feet craft-and-machine-gun-barrage is It is stated that a munitions of the body found yesterday were adding to the general din. No hits factory employing 60,000 work- missing,
Railways connecting Yunnan, identification is positive, have been registered but strayers is at present operating in according to Mr. Hoover, of the shrapnel and bullets are falling on Kunming, and that British and Kwangsi and Indo-China have Federal Bureau of Investigation. Shameen, constituting a serious French munition experts are em- been completed and munitions ployed there as supervisers, and are now being transported to works directors. Our Own Hankow through these routes, Correspondent.
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The body was hardly more than
a mass of decomposed flesh and bones, but sufficient clothing re- mained to make identification pos- sible through a patched jacket sleeve.
THROWN INTO WATER
danger.
Most residents, as a result, are staying indoors, though some hardy souls are observing the raid from the roof-tops.
TWO WOMEN WOUNDED
Reuter's correspondent has just Detectives are of the opinion that witnessed two Chinese women be- the kidnapper, failing to contact Mr. ing wounded by shrapnel opposite Levine, Sr., became panicky, bound the British Bridge, where the boy with copper wire and threw crowds are very thickly. jammed him into the water.
An autopsy has been ordered to determine if death occurred before immersion.
Mr. Levine, Sr. was away from home when the body was found. Reuter.
the
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hugging the environs of the For- G. F. ALLSTEEL FILING CABINETS, eign Settlement for the maximum of safety.
This morning's raid lasted half an hour, after which the visitors disappeared.
It is feared, however, that the lull is purely momentary, and that the ghastly slaughter of the past two days will be continued this afternoon.-Reuter and Our Own
ARMADA IN Correspondent. PEARL RIVER
DELTA
and to the south-west of Macao.
These reports place the Japanese naval strength at not less than 88 ships, including five cruisers, two aircraft carriers, 25 destroyers and six submarines.
Macao, To-day. Expectations of early develop ments in the Japanese threat to South China have been increased by Preparations. for defence are be the barbarous raids on Canton city ing intensified in Chungshan, but and by reliable reports of the pre-no attack on any scale has been sence of a veritable Armada in the ventured hitherto From A Special Pearl River Delta, round Chungshan | Correspondent.
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