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LONDON UNEASY OVER GERMAN MANOEUVRES Warning To Conscripts Of Non-Release Queried
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SEVERE RAID ON CANTON THIS AFTERNOON
(From Our Staff Representative)
Canton, 2 pm. To-day. Canton is now in the throes of an apparently severe bombing raid, the first time that the ominous swish of descending missiles has
Wednesday last week.
Preliminaries Of Mobilisation
London, To-day.
All the newspapers here are giving great promin-
ence to the German army manoeuvres and the mobilisation of reservists.
REFUSE TO SIGN CHANGKUFENG AGREED MAP
Moscow, To-day.
at
An official communique issued by the Foreign Office states that on Saturday a proposal made by Soviet military officials to the been heard on Shameen since The "News Chronicle" urges the Government to Japanese representatives
Changkufeng that both should tell the country the truth regarding the "alarm-sign the protocol and map fixing ing week-end reports from the Continent," the location of the lines and their and declares that official mouthpieces in Lon- don last night, for the first time, admitted un- easiness.
Altogether twenty-seven have planes, in three groups, been sighted, but only nine are engaged in bombing in the city area. Eighteen others are straf- ing the Canton-Kowloon Railway.
In their first swoop over the city, the raiders dropping five bombs, which exploded with
A
The "Daily Telegraph" states:
REASSURING - POINT
respective föfter w the Japanese."
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The communique adds that the Japanese declared that they were awaiting instructions from their superiors and that an au- thoritative Commission would
"Germany should feel no surprise "The reassuring point. is that probably arrive in the area to ar- terrific roar, but apparently did that there is disturbance of mindall. is being done in the light of range the final details. -
little damage. They dropped, as far as could be seen from Sha- meen, in the Laichiwan district, which for the main part consists of a good deal of open country. The casualties and damage is, therefore, likely to be negligible. ANOTHER RAID
2.05 p.m.. Another load of bombs has been dropped. This batch fell much closer to Wongsha Station, though no direct hit was secured. It is supposed that Wongsha was the first objective, and the bombs went astray as a result of very bad marksmanship.
among her neighbours.
"It may be normal to have manoeuvres, to hurry the defences in Rhineland and to call Reservists to the Colours, but is not normal to warn conscripts they will not be released on due date, forbid all men under 65 years of age to leave the country, order all officers to report for service, put doctors and nurses under restriction re- garding their movements and instruct various classes of civilians to register with the police for special duties.
"These things have the aspect, The planes are still overhead not in foreign eyes but in Ger- and more bombing is expected. man, of the preliminaries of mo- From Our Staff Representative. | bilisation.
CHINA PROTEST AGAINST "DOOMED BATTALION" CLASH
Chungking, To-day.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has lodged a strong pro- test with the foreign Embassies over the recent incident in the concentration camp in Shang-
Doomed Batta.. hai where lion" is interned. Two more of the Chinese internees who severely wounded dur
the
the
incident have since succumbed. -Central News.
HUNGER STRIKE CONTINUES
Shanghai,. To-day.
Two further members
the
“Doomed Battalion" have died hospital as a result of the fight on Thursday, bringing the total dentha to four.;
In
The rest of the soldiers continue their hunger strike which has now entered on the fourth day,
The Commanding Officer of the "Doomed Battalion," who was re- moved on Friday, is still being de tained, Reuter.
day.
Reuter.
"German authorities may con- million men, but they must be demn the attaching of a sinister aware they have, in the past, pro- significance to these "mar beuvres, vided grounds for uneasiness." entailing, the mobilisation of a Reuter.
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