JAPANESE
HONAM
BOMBING ISLAND
Murder Raids In Congested Residential Zone
LANDSLIDE TRAGEDY IN HILLWOOD ROAD
Two persons are feared dead, having been buried alive, and three were injured, one seriously, as the result of a landslide at Hillwood Road, Kowloon, at about 7.30 a.m. to-day.
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Shameen Being Peppered With Shrapnel
Canton, 8.30 a.m., To-day.
JAP. SEIZURE OF CHINESE CUSTOMS FUNDS
London, To-day.
Mr. David Adams (Labour, Con
air raid alarms have yet sounded. to-day, al- though the gates of Shameen have been closed sett) asked in the House of Com- as a precaution and those seeking ingress are mons yesterday whether the Prime admitted only in single file.
Minister had any information to Majority of the crowds have disappeared from the show the extent to which the Chin- waterfront, and the whole atmosphere is ap-ese Customs revenue had been preciably calmer for the present.
seized by Japan and was being employed in the warfare against China.
The victims were all labourers, engaged in digging the founda- tions for a wall against Observa- tory Hill. Owing to the recent
Special tribute must be paid to rains, presumably, the hillside collapsed this morning, tons of and soldiers over a trying week- the conduct of the Chinese police earth coming down.
Two coolies escaped with in- juries about the head, but two women and one man were buried. One was rescued after frantic digging, and was sent to hospital in a serious condition, but at 10 a.m. the other victims, a man and a woman, were still buried under tons of earth, and although the P.W.D. and Fire Brigade were working energetically to get to them, no hope of their survival was entertained.
FOREIGNERS NOT WANTED IN NORTH CHINA
end.
They handled the huge water- front crowds with coolness and despatch, and rendered the duties of the Shameen authorities ap- preciably easier.-Reuter.
PEACE SHATTERED Canton, 10.05 a.m., To-day. from the ghastly Japanese air Canton's hopes of a respite raids were shattered at 9.05 this again sounded. morning when the alarm was
∙COMMONS
AND CANTON MASS MURDER
London, To-day,
Mr. Arthur Henderson (Labour) will ask the Prime Minister to- morrow (Wednesday) for a state- ment on the air bombing of civi- lians in Canton.-Reuter.
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The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, replied that he presumed Mr. Adams re- ferred to Customs revenues in Tientsin, which were now deposited in the Yokohama Specie: Bank.
It was impossible to say to what precise use, these sums were being put.-Reuter.
DUTCH MEDICINE FOR CHINESE
There was no sign of the raid-were killed and 200 houses demolish-collected by the Chinese Refuges and 50 civilians A large quantity of medical stores ers until 9.40, when a solitary ed in Lishiu. Altogether nine Ja- Relief Association in the Nether- plane appeared and reconnoitred. panese planes participated in No bombs were dropped.
the lands will be brought here by the 80 8.8. Meerkerk on June 6 from the
Hague.
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At 9.55 five planes roared missiles in all parts of the city.
bombing, dumping more than overhead and now commenced the daily routine of destruction.
Consul-General,
Six enemy machines bombed Ning- The Netherlands po, dropping some 30 explosives. At Dr. F. A. van Woerden, here- will · BOMBING HONÁM -
Chuki, altogether 81 bombs were distribute the consignment to the It is uncertain what the ob-released by six planes.-Central interior of China after its arrival. jectives are, but successive ex- News.
Central News. plosions seem to come from the direction of Honam Island, where there are no known military ob- jectives, merely a congested re-
Shanghai, To-day. According to reports from North China, foreigners are suspected by the Japanese to be engaged in anti-sidential area. Japanese espionage activities.
The Peiping Provisional Govern- ment have issued instructions to the Japanese authorities at Tien- tsin and Tangku to pay more at- tention to foreigners entering the country.
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Passports are to be closely scru- tinised and examined before holders will be allowed to land. Our Own Correspondent.
GUIANA RIOT REPORTS DENIED
London, To-day.
A message received at the Co- lonial office from the Governor of British Guiana states that there is no truth in the report of riots and disturbances in that Colony Friday.
on
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Meanwhile the Chinese defend-
gun and anti-aircraft fire, and oc- ers are again loosing off machine-
casional shrapnel is falling on Shameen. Reuter.
BOMES FALL IN RIVER Canton, 10.35 a.m. To-day. About half a dozen bombs fell on Saichuen in this morn- ing's air raid, several others falling into the river.
The cement works was · ap- parently the objective, but no hits were registered.
At 10.05 the second alarm was sounded, and further raids are expected at any moment.
Shameen is quiet and the si- tuation at the gates has eased considerably owing to the co- operation of the Chinese po- lice.
The British authorities are issuing passes to Chinese em- ployees of foreign firms, allow- ing them to enter Shameen be tween 6 a.m. and 8 p.m., after which times no non-residents are allowed on the island.— Reuter....
There have been partial inter- ruptions of work on four estates in the last fortnight, which in one case CHEKIANG BOMBINGS became almost complete for a day,
Kinhwa, To-day, but with very few exceptions all the For the second successive day, men concerned had returned to work Japanese planes yesterday, rained after a short interval, and the police death and destruction over a wide had not had to intervene.
aren in Chekinng, including the Generally, the situation was quiet. Icities of Ningpo and Chuki, and -British Wireless.
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