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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
EXPLOSION
IN
JERUSALEM BAZAAR
Many Casualties In Area Packed With Arabs
CANTON SAVED
BY STORM:
SECOND ALARM
LATER SOUNDED
Canton, To-day.
The beginnings of a heavy storm saved Canton from a pos- sible repetition of Thursday's carnage when an unknown num- ber of heavy bombers and pur-
suit planes were driven off by
lightning flashes.
The air raid alarm was sound- ed at 7.45 and the planes appear ed in considerable number at 8.30. They turned tail when the storm began to break and the "All Clear" was sounded at 8.55 a.m.
:
Police And Troops FOUR KILLED IN
Out To Prevent
Grave Disorders
Jerusalem, To-day.
JAPAN STORM DISASTER
Tokyo, To-day.
Frightful scenes were witnessed yesterday follow- At least four. were killed and ing a bomb explosion in a bazaar in the Old over 100 houses were flooded by the heavy rainstorms which City which was densely packed by Arab pea-swept through Tohoku in the sants who had come to town for Friday's devo- north-eastern district of Japan.
About 1,500 houses were flood- tions in the Mosque.
ed, 8 embankments destroyed, 12
undated and several houses de- molished in the Aomori Prefec- ture.
At
least 11 persons including women and children bridges washed away, roads in-
were killed and 15 were injured.
In Akita
Police and troops have been posted in the main cen- tres of Jerusalem to prevent repercussions of this incident in the Jewish quarters. Reuter, houses were flooded, 2 bridges
Jerusalem, To-day.
They dropped no bombs during] their short stay and there were All no more than three or four bursts of anti-aircraft fire.
The planes could not be counted owing to thick lowlying clouds.
Rain is now falling heavily and it seems likely that Canton will The be given a respite to-day. Reuter.
SECOND RAID
Canton, Later.
After a sharp storm, the weather has begun to clear up and though there are banks of cloud about, these conditions are ideal for bombing.
Japanese airmen showed realisa- tion of this fact and at 9.25 a.m. a further alarm was sounded, and at 9.30 a.m the urgent alarm shrieked throughout the city, indicating the probability of an attack on Canton. Apprehension le felt in view of the Japanese penchant for staging their worst raids at week-ends. From Our Staff Correspondent,
MERCURY TO
WING TO NEW
Prefecture 800
destroyed and a third bridge on which six persons were walking
Reuter. Arab shops in Jerusalem, are closed as a pro-was washed away. test against the new bomb outrages and many Jewish shops, fearing an attack, are following His Excellency the Governor has suit.
curfew was re-imposed at 8 o'clock and armed police shepherded towards home bus-loads of Jewish residents in the Old City.
The latest outrages have|
deeply shocked all the communities whose hopes of a gra- dual return of nor- mality have been rudely shattered.
Haifa was more normal and the majority of the shops opened yes terday afternoon.
A
In view of the continued cases of arson involving Jewish premises, the shopkeepers in Haifa are mark- ing their premises with a crescent and the Christian Arabs with a cross. :
WIRE NETTING ON BUSES A number of the Europeanised Arabs have changed their "trilby" hats for "tarbushes" and the Jewish buses are encased with wire a protection against
YORK NEXT WEEK notting as
London, To-day.
bombs.・
Strong forces are still posted at Weather permitting, the "Mer-strategical centres, but the number cury," the upper-section of the
Mayo-composition aircraft, will
fly
the Atlantic from Foynes,
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Imperial Airways regular staff. The
"'" ultimate des- Reuter.
appointed Mr. George Charles Moss to act as Superintendent, Fire Bri-
gade, during the absence on leave of Mr. Jack Cooper Fitz-Henry, or
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