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No. 13530
一拜禮辦十三月五英港香
MONDAY, MAY 30, 1938.
日二初月五
20 PLANES BOMB
GOVERNMENT
OFFICES
ARE TARGET
Shrapnel Showered Into Shameen Area
Canton, May 30.
About 20 Japanese planes took part in this morning's raid, the bombers coming over the city in relays.
About 40 bombs were dropped by the raiders, who i were endeavouring to hit the Government Offices in Central Park.
So far they have failed to hit this prominent target, although buildings in the vicinity were badly damaged, with attendant loss of life.
The Saichuen area, where the waterworks and power station (see map Page 7) are situated, also came in for its share of attention.
Intense anti-aircraft and machine-gun fire greeted the invaders, adding to the general din.
None of the Japanese planes were hit, but stray pieces of shrapnel and bullets fell in the foreign settle- ment on Shameen, constituting a serious danger to foreign residents, most of whom remained indoors.
A few hardy sunk witnessed the battle from the roof tops of Shameen. A Reuter representative witnessed two Chinese women hit by failing i shrapnel on the bund opposite the British bridge connecting Shameen i with Canton.
Crowds were Jaimed thickest in this area, hugging the environs of the foreign settlement.
The raid lasted hall an hour. atter which the visitors disappeared.** Regter.
International Protest
May Be Sent
Canton, May 30.
The Foreign Committee for Justice
REFUGEES POUR IN DURING WEEK-END
Trains And Ships All Packed Out Of Canton
In the wildest exodus for
One train-the only official express|
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CANTON IN RELAYS
Mass Inoculation Of Incoming Refugees
FIRST SCENES OF THE CANTON BOMBING, photographed soon after the raiders had destroyed Wongsha Station in Canton, were rushed to the Hongkong Telegraph to-day. (A fur- This is a view of the station's interior, with a wrecked locomotive among the debris. ther picture of the ruins resulting from the mass raid on Saturday appears on Page 12.}
Japanese Force Annihilated
West Shantung Position Improves For Chinese
Liuan, May 30,
During a fierce battle yester- day at Tashushan on the out- skirts of Hofei, an entire Japan- ese unit, numbering 2,000 men was wiped out.
More than 600
Japanese soldiers, taken captive in the en- ¦gagement, have been escorted to
the rear.-Central News,
Improves
Chengchow, May 30.
close in
BRUTAL
DOUBLE
CRIME
MURDER IN SHA'I
COMES
TO LIGHT
Assailant Commits
Suicide
Shanghai, Muy 30. Kidnapped Boy's Body In a sensational double mur- Found Tied With Wire der and suicide, Wang Hslang-
New Rochelle, May 29. The wire-bound body of Peter Levine, 12-year-old son of a wealthy New York lawyer, has been found.
HONGKONG MOVES TO REMOVE RISK OF NEW EPIDEMIC
Vaccinating Squads At Work On Inbound Trains
The Hongkong medical authorities have taken fullest precautions to protect Hongkong from importation of diseases through the influx of Chinese refugees from Canton and other parts of China, and measures have been adopted to, assist as many refugees as possible to find accommodation in the already overcrowded Colony.
This was revealed to-day by an official, who said that to date accommodation had been found for no less than 2,000 refugees. High hopes were held out that it would be possible to give similar aid to further batches of evacuces.
In the meantime, the fullest precautions are being adopted to prevent cholera and smallpox being brought into Hongkong.
QUAKE ROCKS JAPAN
Death Toll Still Uncertain
Tokyo, May 30.
rocked the
2.43
the
ping, 50 year-okl bodyguard, A report from Hokkaldo states that yesterday shot and killed his an Intense earthquake employer, Mr. Yuh Si-hsich, the famous hat spring regions at well-known local lawyer, and P., Japan lime on Sunday. murdered a fellow bodyguard, Several buildings, including:
Hokkaido Hot Springs Hotel, were Wang then ended his own life with demolished or damaged. Detectives were called 10 the pistol with which he had com-) Davenport Neck, Long Island mitted the murders.
Railway traffic has been suspended Police Investigoons revealed that and communications are down, Sound to-day, and the boy's body Mr. Yuh Sl-hsich allegedly accepted was identified a little later.
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Though the head, hands and feet! Government from the Reforined
The
Few details can be obtained
fect.
All ships are being met und before passengers are allowed to disembark they are vaccinateḍ ngainst anali- pox and in some cases inoculated ngainst cholera. A process of disin- fection is also being carried out.
Refugees coming to Hongkong from Cunton by train have to comply with similar precautions. The vaccina- tions and inoculations are carried out by squads on the trains before they reach Kowloon.
Because there is an increasing in- cidence of cholora reported from Swatow, quarantine restrictions have been Imposed by the Hongkong au- thorities against arrivals from that coast town.
STOP PRESS
BRITON NEAR DEATH
to China is holding meeting Unts
months, nearly 6,000 West Shantung Situation afternoon to consider π possible many international protest against Japanese evacuees poured out of Canton bombers flying over Shameen during during the week-end for Hong-
in Nanking. It is under present owing to the remoteness of the their raids on Canton.-United Press, kong, utilising the restricted rail
are missing identifention is positive, stood that he had been appointed to region and the cutting of telegraph The situation in west Shantung has
are according to Mr. H. Hoover of the
of post of Director |andriver_services to their improved and Chinese forces
the
Salt and telephone lines, Japanese Version
Revenue Bureau. capacity. More than half of consolidating their positions follow- Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The body is hardly more than as
It is understood that a subterranean Brooding over the fact that his explosion rocked the district, and an Shanghai, May 30. these people were refugees whoing the recapture of a number of Im-
mass of decomposed fesh and bones, The Soichuen power house, as well had lost their homes and prac-portant points.
mployer had became a "traitor to
the centre of Lake Island rose in Acting as a sulphuric acid factory in the
co-operation, but sufficient clothing remained to
Wang is sald to have told neighbourhood of Canton, were sut tically all their belongings in the Chinese mobile units during the lost make Identification possible-parti-Chonds that he was not going to let Kushiro, where the water sank three
casualties cularly a patched Jacket sleeve. on fire by Japanese bombing planes air raids which devastated
two days inflicted heavy
master remain unpunished. Detectives believe the kidnappers, The murder is believed to have Water gushed from the mountain yesterday, it was announced here to- large section of Canton city on on the invaders by launching many
of Kuych. having failed to make contact with
for been day by a Japanese military spokes-Saturday and Sunday.
assaults in the vicinity
carefully planned,
Asahikawa, Wang sides at Mt.
west of Mr. Levine, the father, and becoming, Chengwu and Tingtes.
betore Hokkaido, where nine houses were damaged.
Canton, May 30. Following its recapture by Chinese punicky, bound the boy with copper shot his fellow bodyguard Damage was also done to large:
of the day carried 2,200 refugees, the forces, normalcy,
to wire and threw him into the water. taking the life of his employer. destroyed and 122 were has returned
One child is reported to have been
Mr. J. T. Bell, a Briton, em- coment plant, the report claimed.
An autopsy has been ordered to Reuter.
icilled. At Wongsha, the railway station majority of whom had lost all save a Hatsch near the Hopel border, where
ployed by the Yee Tsoong Tobac few clothes and godowns were wrecked and set which they carried in
and cooking utensils some of the heaviest fighting in west determine whether Peter died before
parcels
and Shantung has been seen.
Feara are entertained for the safety co Company, and a Chinese clerk, on fire while the airplane repair bundles on bamboo poles,
On the Anhwel-Honan border. The father was away from home porting that his boy tory in the southeastern suburbs was
turned. The kidnappers never made of the populace of a large village on also badly damaged. Anti-vitcraft After tumbling out of the train at Chinese troops pushing northward when the body was found,
Kidnappers, It will be recalled, de- contact with him, though he offered the shore of Lake Kushiro. Nothing narrowly escaped death when has been heard from this village Japanese planes bombed Taisha- positions in the industrial area of Kowloon station, they made thele from Hantaokow, north of Yung- Honom were allenced, it was stated. way to various parts of the Colony cheng, have advanced to Slenkiatu munded a ransom of $40,000 and in them ble fortune.
Peter was kidnapped on his way since the earthquake-United Press. tao Station the Canton terminus of the Kowloon-Canton railway already congested, and helped to where a chance encounter with an attempt to win their confidence Domel.
the number of
during the second raid on Canton of Chinese who are combined force of 400 Japanese in- and treat with them. Mr. Levine home from school on February 4-
resulted In a deliberately misled the police, re-Reuter. now living in the streets or in rickety fantry and suppers
to-day. the Invaders. matsheds erected on waste ground In crushing defeat of Shanghai. May 30. certain paris of Kowloon,
Central News. In extensive milltary air raids
Early this morning railway officials carried out over a wide aren on Sun- st Kowloon were startled when
Chinese Shift Line day, considerable concentrations of unscheduled train arrived bringing
Kaifeng, May 30. Chinese troops around Halchow, in with it a further 600 evacuees. These
Hard pressed by a Japanese pincer Kiangsu province, were repeatedly were in a similar plight to the removement, the Chinese command bombed and airated, (1 military fugees which arrived here last night. ordered the abandonment of its spokesman reported here this morn-
original position west Ing.--Domel.
Troops Attacked
an
RAIN EXPECTED morning were filled to capacity. For
IN HONGKONG
of Kweltch.
or
after his immersion.
had been re-
SMALLPOX TAKES 1,920 LIVES IN HONGKONG
Man In Iron Lung Shows Big Improvement
Miami Beach, May 30. Frederick Snite, the "Man in the Iron Lung" entrained for Chicago on Wednesday, it is re- vealed.
Mr. Bell was visiting the station on business and was taken comTM pletely by surprise,
Ilo
Mand
stated afterwards: after plane power-dived on the ma tion dropping bombs which explod- Fed with tremendous reverberations. We rushed for the nearest cover and hoped for the best,
"Fortunately the missiles fell wide of our hiding place. It was the most uncomfortable time I have ever spent. The whole earth shook and the noise was deafening. We were the only two people in the station compound as the staff had already taken refuge In dugouts."-Router,
Taishan's 1,800 Passengers south of the railway, on the evening
The five month small-pox epidemic.which has swept Hong- What steamers were running from of May 28, to take up a new defence kong this year has claimed a total of 1.920 lives, it is revealed
to-day. Canton to Hongkong on Saturday line,
This move, it la explained, is Figures compiled by the Medical Department show that the example, the Taishan brought down strategically necessary because of the river no less than 1,000 passengers, pressure of 3,000 Japanese troops in epidemic, which has now definitely ended, was remarkable for while the Tung On Company's Snel On the vicinity of Kweltch, and a strong the high mortality raic.
detachment of cavalry advancing carried 000 possengers.
when emallpox Only 364 of the 2,204 cases report- | suramer months, These people apparently had and from cast of Ningling to threaten the ed recovered from the disease. Over dormant, the authorities are wisely
HEAVY CASUALTIES Temperature in Hongkong rose yes- cipated the week-end ralds, for they Chinese rear.
of the victims wore preparing for next winter when the
His condition hos Improved so terday to a maximum of 60 degrees, were fortunate enough to get away west of Kweitel, including Min-children.
A number of strong points north-70 per cent.
refugee problem may uggravate the remarkably that he is able now to According to the United Press, the necording to a Royal Observatory re- | before the bombers
situation and cause another outbreak. remain outside, his fron Jung for second air inld took place at Canton, port, and the reading at 10 o'clock work.
chuan, Tanhaien and Chongwu, re- The epidemic was the greatest Four vases of smallpox were re-
at noon this morning was $1." The minimum No steamers sufled from Canton main in Chinese hands-Central smallpox outbreak ever recorded in ported from Kowloon yesterday, the twenty-three minutes at a stretch.
An undetermined number of ale- recording last night was 70. Humi- yesterday, but the Fatshan in due this News.
the Colony, and reached its peak Ja remainder of the Colony being free Snite, A 21-year-old American craft bombed the contro of the city. dity this morning, was 67 per cont.
of Murch, when ng of the discose.
tourist, contracted infantile paralysis Reports, from "noral-official sources The Far Eastern Bulletin for the in Peiping, whilst on a "Journey state that casualles were extremely The weather report states that the Both vessels are certain to be carry-
Kalteng, May 30, which proved fatal, were, recorded week ending May 21 shows that 70 through the Far East.
heavy, zur the raid was a surprise. anti-cyclone is stationary ever the ing large numbers of passengers.
Chinese reinforcements are rush- dally.
cases were reported in Calcutta, 27 Pacife to the cast and south-east of The refugee problem is assuming
ing to the rescue of Pohslen, import=" Local auhorities are all insisting each in Bombay and Madras, eight He was taken to the United States Japan. Pressure is relatively low alarmftig dimensions.
people A Government official said this mt city on the west extreme of the that as many
as possible in Ilanol, six in Delhi, and one enchin his iron lung, which was taken by over Indo-China.
morning that the situation was being Ko River, in north Anhwal, near the should be inoculated. Whilst it is in Alexandrin, Bassein, Rangoon, special train from Polping to Shang- Jodhpur, Macao and hai and across the Pacific in a Dollar: Local forecast is:-East winds, closely watched, and that the au-Honan border, where the situation not expeeled that there will be a re- Cawnpore,
liner United Press. moderate; cloudy, occasional xalá.
(Continued an Page 6.)
(Continued on Page 5.)
currence of the disease during the Shanghal.
started
thele
afternoon and so is the Tung On. Pohsion) Situation Critical the middle
average of 10 casta, nearly all of
(Further Stop, Preze News on Page 12.)
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