JAP. BOMBS ON TERRITORIES
MANY KILLED IN BRITISH TERRITORY: RUTHLESS RAID
M. BUTLER NOT WITHOUT HOPE
LONDON, TO-DAY.
THE RAPID' EXPANSION OF THE TRADE IN NARCOTICS IN
THE
JAPANESE- OCCUPIED
A SUDDEN AND RUTHLESS ATTACK WAS MADE BY JAPANESE BOMBERS ALONG! THE BORDER BETWEEN HONG KONG AND CHINESE TERRITORY THIS MORN ING.
A large number of bombs were dropped on Shum- chun and other points along the frontier, several bombs falling in British territory and causing many casualties.
PAUL LINEBARGER DEAD
Washington, To-day,
· The death has occurred of Paul Myron "Linebarger, author and legal adviser to Dr. Sun Yat-sen and the Chinese National Gov- orament-Renter,
YANGTSE CO.
AREA IN SHANGHAT AND A part of Shumchun is in flames, and the terrific MEETING WITH
PLACES IN
CHINA WHERE THE JAPANESE
ARE IN CONTROL
WAS THE
SUBJECT OF A QUESTION IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONSI YES TERDAY AFTERNOONT
The Under-Secretary for Foreign
population, many of whom have been killed, are streaming across the border into the New Territories.
The raid took both the Chinese districts and the British authori:
KILLED IN BRITISH
FERRETORYSS
ties by complete surprise, £8 8c-. Ond bomb fell near the
DIFFICULTIES
London, To-day, Wu The Under-Secretary of Foreign
Affairs, Mr. R. A. Bügler, and recording to an arrangement made blockhouse, in British" "territory, Affairs, Mr. R A. Butler, was a ports received did not,adicate last year, the Japanese promised killing an Indian policeman, P.C.B.ed in the House of Commons yes- stantial modificationm the position
to give 48-hours, warning of any 750 Mony Chinese were killed as described the baton military action on the British and wounded on both sides of the terday whether enquiries had been December 22.
YENTE EL RUOL börder, and refugees are pouring completed relating to the Shanghai He was not, however, without hope that the Japanese authorities Detailed news from the border by the hundred may now be aware of the danger is self differit tar contain, Dar it attendant on an increase in
hat been catablished that severa
traffic and may now be desining measures to meet them, Reuter
bomba fell in British territory
THREAT TO BOMB
NEW YORK MEETING
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^ "NEW YORK, TOʻDAY, EXTRAORDINARY POLICE, PRECAUTIONS WERE TAKEN LAST NIGHT TO DEAL WITH EXPECTED DISORDERS IN CONNECTION WITH A BIG BALLY OF THE PRO NAZI
"GERMAN-AM AN FUND IN MADISON SQUARE
GARDEN.
DRIVER DISAPPEARS AFTER CRASH
Bu tatal. rUARD ESINE"
(à suoi no hestengda Another Chinese Soo Sang, also travelling on the van," was alightly injured, while the driver Chan Hoi, escaped without injury and disappeared.
The threl injurell pernoum
the Kowloon Hospital.
The
A four-year-old
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Chinese gl
Nine planas participated in the Inland Navigation Steamship Com
raid - which was – carried out at pany. about 10 am and dropped 17 The Company was formed some bombs, concentrating on the rifl-time ago for the Tangtre service. way line area, which was wrecked. Mr. Butler replied that the Bri- The Royal Scots are in camp at tish Consul General at Shanghai Lo Wu, and the Kumaon Rifles are had reported that the Company stationed at Sai Ward's
continuing to function. British troops are manning thes
BEING REORGANISED. frontier posts.
BRITAIN STILL CONSIDERING HELP FOR CHINA
London, To-day.
The matter of further measures
Fine
However, the concern had mot, with d number of difficulties and was being reorganised as a sub- sidiary of one of the holding Ca pantes promoted by the Japaneso Government.
The Japanese authorities had been informer that the British Government · did, not admit their right to impose any system of con- trol on British shipping in Chinese
Reuter.
STEEL AIR RAID SHELTERS IN BRITAIN
of Brition matcial support for inland water. wala ham frente a Chair in pursuance of the League Fifteen hundred police were a assembly resolution last Septom- signed to the Garden, in the neighbor, are still being considered. bourhood of which 60,000 demon-gyris statement was made in tho ors were expected to act House of Commons yesterday by wickets or otherwise show their Under Secretary for Foreign disapproval of the Bund's activitius Allaire, Mr A Batter, in reply Fritz Kuhn, the Bund leader, a to Mr. Philip Neer Baker (Labour, nounced the intention to have 3,000 of his uniformed Storm Troopers on hand to deal with any “distur
ürer Inside the Garden..
BOMB WARNING Five police lorries loaded
--gaz-bombs "wore atanding By, while reserva police armed with
ios Wort stationed the That muurt of the Garden.
1
„Eglica, spent the prominus, night a combing the Gardell Tollowing an anonymous warning that bomba
had been planted there. Nothing
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LONDON, TO-DAY. DISTRIBUTION OF STEEL SHELTERS FOR USE DURING AIR BAIDS WILL BEGIN ON FEBRUARY 27, +1
Allotment will first be made to those districts most likely to be threatened by possible war
These steel shelters are two metros high in TUAZON JAY RE and afford protec tion to several perfond at if time
-The two Chinche prisoners, Clon against danger from bombs and hiu-wing and E Ming, who'2 14 dplinterave vile edol sib Jart bir thought handcuffed togetherdscapeil >Them Government has ordered tha stody of two -Chini (20,000 stelturs de beginuhig. Þe @laints Imenon §-Firati district to be served will pont «Bailway: probably be the south-easter
or counties. The poorer séditions. Dr boon the population. will receive shet
tars free of cont.