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HIT-AND-RUN
ON
AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
RAID
WONGSHA AREA
Casualties Entering American-Operated Hospital
·R.A.F. DISASTER IN 'MALAYA
Singapore, To-day.
Two Vickers Vildebeeste R.A.F. torpedo-bombers crashed at sea last night near Port Swettenham, while engaged in a training flight. It is feared that six members of the crews are dead.-Reuter.
WAR HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN
HANKOW, TO-DAY. REPLYING TO THE PELPING STATEMENT URGING THE KUO- MINTANG TO END THE WAR, THE TA KUNG PAO SAYS "JAPAN SCORED SUCCESS IN THE SINO-JAPANESE WAR OF 1894, THEN IN THE RUSSIAN- JAPANESE
ALSO WAR, AND CAPTURED TSINGTAO-FROM-
GERMANY, ENTIRELY
THROUGH LUCK.
ter-
"In the war of 1894, Japan fought the North China militarists, mininating the war only after land battle.
a
"The Russian-Japanese war was terminated in only the preliminary President stage of hostilities by Roosevelt's intervention.
Forty Killed And Wounded In Dairy
(From Our Staff Representative)
Canton, 12.40 p.m. To-day.
The dead and wounded are now trickling into the American-operated Hackett Hospital, over
BRITAIN AND
CHINA TRUCE POSSIBILLITY
London, To-day.
In a written statement in the House of Commons, the Under Secretary in the Foreign Office,
do
Mr. R. A. Butler, declared that everything in her power alone or
England would be glad to
which the Stars and Stripes are flying at sever-in collaboration with other Pow- al points, within 200 yards of Wongsha Station, which was the focus of the raid this morning.
ers to bring about an armistice in China as a forerunner to peace. He pointed cut, however, that there are no grounds for believing
gn proposal which included
the
The attack was carried out in a manner suggesting that Japan would accept any forei- some fear that the planes might be attacked withdrawal of Japanese troops as by Chinese fighters, for it might aptly be des-the basis for negotiations. cribed as a "hit-and-run" raid, the bombers loosing their missiles and turning tail.
The recent. statement of the Jap- anese Foreign Minister is recalled in which he doubted the possibili- ty of any foreign Power being able and The attack destroyed another to intervene between Japan
China.--Trans-Ocean. "military objective," a dairy and
SWATOW BOMBED distillery, in which forty persons
THIS MORNING
Swatow, To-day. Namoa Island was occupied by Japanese marines yesterday night.
Japanese planes were active this morning in bombing the rail- way station at 7.00 a.m., and the power-station at 9.30 a.m., with "The Japanese capture of Tsing-only slight damage to both ob- tao was no indication of a Japanese jects. victory over Germany.
new
"Japan hopes to win the war with China by the accepting of her peace terms, but Japan is mistaken.
"We wish to warn general Ugaki that China will not accept a com- promise. The war has only begun. China has completed preparations for a final and decisive battle yet to come. The Chinese nation is united and it is time for Japan to seriously reconsider her China policy-Reuter.
THIRD TIME
Reuter.
DECLARATION OF WAR POSSIBLE
Tokyo, To-day. The Japanese Foreign Min- ister is earnestly examining the pro and cons of a formal war declaration against China, aiming at inducing third Powers to abandon as- sisting China, according to the "Nichi-Nichi."-Reuter.
!
Mrs. Nathan Road," stated at the Kow-
The Royal Observatory reports loon Police Court this morning be- fore Mr. K. M. A. Barnett, that that pressure appears to be high- when she was the victim of a est over the Caroline Islands and snatch thief at 8 p.m. yesterday in is relatively low over China and Nathan Road, it was the third time Japan. A shallow. depression recently. Defendant, arrested by a covers Manchuria, Forecast: Chinese passer-by, was sentenced winds, moderate; fair generally
with local showers. to three months' hard labour,
J. Wagner, of No. 224, LOCAL SHOWERS
S.
were killed and wounded.
A policeman who fell dead with a lump of steel in his brain' was the şole non-civilian casualty of the raid.--Staff Representative.
I
CHOLERA
One case of cholera, from the Shaukiwan district, was reported to the Medical Department yester- day.
INSPECT
MAMAK'S
RANGE
OF
COSTUMES
AND
TRUNKS
NOTHING BUT THE BEST
AT
MAMAK'S
10, Peking Road, Kowloon.