THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1938.
SPECIAL TELEGRAPH MAP OF THE FAR EAST WAR ZONE
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TAIYUAN,
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Gulf of Chihli
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Loyang
Tsingcheng
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SHANTUNG
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Kaocheng
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Chenchow
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Tsining
Yenchow
GRAND CANAL
~~~ Yucheng
Kweitch
Checheng Yungchang
Lincheng
Linyi
Tancheng
Taierchwang
Tungshan
Kuchen
Sutsien
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Q Fuyang
Mengcheng
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Wuho
ANHWEI
Fengyang
Haichow
Tsingkaw
Yencheng
Hwaian
Tsingtao
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Kioshan
Hwai Ho River
Sianyang
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Sintien
Sinyang
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Kwangshur
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Siapkan
Chungsiang
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Tsienshen
Yangtse River
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ANKING
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Jukao
Nantung
Woosung
SHANGHAI
Soochow
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EYE-WITNESS TELLS OF CANTON HORROR
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before the dull, muffler rom reached the ears.
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The earth trembles concussion of these 500lb. masses of expletive for great distanTATOSS
Awful Spectacle
High above the city on the of of Canton's only skyscraper, the actual bombing seems as impersonal as it the goggled Japanese must do to rakiers 10,000 feet above.
The senses react to the explosis and to the resultant devastation but it
that ! band 10
realise cach explosion may clum hund Hves, and terribly aims other regres
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more fra.l Glunt girdlers twist
grotesque and fantastic shapes, heavy beats กฟน! are splintered to match-wood bricks and concrete keveme dlust Usually,
aceupants disappear the with their homes, thefa Dinad bodies mingling with the dust in one indistinguishable mass.
of
terminus
the Canton Hankow Line. The remaining 43 bombs fell on crowded civilian areas.
soine far distant from the objectives claimed as of military Importance by the Japanone.
I was taken to the ruins of three Senols, beneath one of which still f the bodies of al
dozen children.
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missing, men with their bodies burnt black
lifeless I counted 24 broken und lasties, brought out from the wreck- age of one tenement within an hea¦ of the bombku.
Heroic Rescue Workers
Tortunately without ensunities.
Harel
also.
CHINESE RETIRE TO NEW DEFENCE LINES IN ANHWEI
(Continued frona Page 1),
Bankow Mater
by way of the Yangtse.—
Heavy Fighting In North Kiangau
Loyang, June 6. Heavy Bahting between Chinese! Serifin forces and Japanese has braken out at a number places in north Kiangau, south of the Lunghal ne, wcording to military informn- tion received here.
PLANES DIVING ABOVE SHAMEEN
(Continued from Page 1)
again to-dny, as was the Pearl River bridge, always a target.
Approximately Ivn planes participating at the momeal.
One bumb in the Salehuen residen- tial area has taken 118 casualties this
morning.
H.K.-Bound Ship
Near Bombed Forts
Canton, June 6, During the first raid the bombings started at 8,50 min, and lasted until 0.05 in., says Reuter,
AM far Js, con be seen Three hundred Japanese at Shuopo) Shamten, the Government Offices in take, after crossing the Grand Canal way on the extern bank of the Kabyu Central Park and Taishatno Rail-
Station. terminus
of
from
Land Scheme For Jamaica Aids Jobless
Kingston, Jamaica, June 6.
The Government announces that an hemediate start will be made with a Jand settlement schemic costing
£500,000.
The scheme has for its object the creation of an Independent peasantry who will be supplied with tools, plant, seed and housing, and will be given special assistance to develop their
land.
Special consideration will be given to Jamaica's unemployed.-Reuter.
the Bund, where thousands always take
to thrust westward, were challenged Kowloon-Canton fine, were again the shelter, moving af far as possible
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which
To Red Crosses Painted Out
21
lurge
steamer
The
from the central areas in the direct- for ton of the Shameen-Reuter.
Second Alarm In Canton
Canton, June G.
had Soon after the early raiders vanisted, a second air rald warning wan sounded in Canton at 10.03.a.tr. to-day.
ralders During the first raid the
the Whampoa forts-
Reater.
The berotan of the Chinese Cruss workers and Boy Scouts is one of the really magnificent things of For three hours 1 helpesi Reid Cruss is barbarisan that has come to workers and solda to frantically Canton, Before the dust elles narrow through fliteen feet of debris they are tearing away at the debris, Chinese Kirl. Bringing succour to the wounded and intrufously injured in || three laying out the feud. English Sat-
which vation Army
officials and doctors sterryed tenement halding Euro 60 peuple.
vonfirmed) tes ener the report
Japanese doring part work, twier Frantic Father Works
D! macione-gaNITO Power-dived
worked thee humanitarians as they The girl o îmby directed the opera-
as we neared her. Her father,ong the ruins of buiklings boobed alf an hour previously. Eleven Boy stood still pozing from u bandaged tits and 21 Red Cross workers have wound in his head, frantically taftes at this manner. it the subba of time and masonry, ying bitterly because his wife and
Eight Fanglish tadies, an American, a brisk duel by the defence forces, objectives.
The Invaders were finally repulsed two sons still buy beneath the ruins.
Whampoa Forts also came in Australis ar a Gerrain, whn Red Cross i w Red
workers tearing comprise the forels section of the after three hours' spirited ghung attention, a number of bombs being
tiny suffere nt debris to reach another Canton brunch of the Salvation Army,
dropped in their vietuity, while the frantieally n
in the ruins of
Hongkong-bound morning of a Chinese, burled
are on the field with the vanguard number of casualties.
was proceeding down the river. building which collapsed less than
Red Cross workers. Thay
More than 100 Japanese troops vessel must have been close to the block away. His cries grew fointer
were machine-gummed in they worked. Yangchow. twenty-five kilometres forts at the time, du not exaggerate when I say
north of Chinking on the north
the Although
"All-Clear" was that the gutters of Wing Hon Street, and fainter, and then Bnally ceased.
The Salvation Army home has been ink of the Yangtse, were recently sounded at 9,20 nm., the respite was Canton's principal thoroughfare, rari When he no longer cried out for help. the Red Cross workers desisted in
vacuated becaure it has twice been despatched to Shanpo and Fowning brief, for at 10.05 um. the city was 1ed after yesterday's attnek. Six
their efforts. There were too many bombed. hundred people are believed
in eleven motor trucks.
agala awaiting with some trepidation aimed at have died in just this onc street. urgent cases elsewhere to wagte long hours in searching for a man who hundred veilms The bodies of over
the south of Halchow, the the next visitation.
Anti-aircraft fire this morning was either unconscious or dead,
Early Alarms lie buried beneath hundreds of tons
I saw a Chinese woman with an of debris of the Chung Won barber
I was shown the wreckage of two enstern terminus of the Lunghai line,
about eighty Japanese, marching seemed most sparse. The clear at- to her back. hospitals. strapped
Once
Canton, June 6 (9.10 á.m.). shop. On Saturday morning
northward from Wongtai, were halied mosphere and bright cunshloc
At 8.30 a.m. to-day ten Dccupied the ground floor of a four. The lafant was quite dead, but the enormous Red Crosses were painted by Chinese troops at Peisha where a siderably added the raiders but made
alive. moaning n the roofs of Canton's hospitals, brait encounter preceeding. then more vulnerable to storcy reinforced concrete building. mother was still
craft fire than was the case yester-Japanese planes in two groups of because International Law decrced converted, because of its strength, feebly.
reca Central News,
day, when they were able to dart five goared over the city at that they were places of refuge for Into an air raid shelter.
behind low cumulus clouds as soon about 10,000 feet altitude and Baby Crics For Cat
the dying and the wounded, But
But on
ten bombs in the Felday the Red Crosses were painted A baby cried lustily besidus the
Tungshan district, high class residential area. body of a dead cat-its playmate of The Chinese believe that the in the faces of those who have lost as they had unloaded their missilesdropped The child could not possibly know Japanese ure using the prominent their loved ones, as they dig in the sicos as sighters for their bombs, debris in a valu search for the bodies that it was the only sirvivor of a
buried beneath plies of debris grief
Twenty more bombs were What do the Japanese hope to achieve first-then terrible, consuming anger, family of eight. It was toddling in
from these indiscriminate ralds on the narrow street, chasing the cat.
You see it in the faces of the Eur- From 10.30 to 11.10 am. Canton dropped in the centre of the when its home rocked to destruction unprotected Canton? I saw no signs
of panic, unless the jostling of a few opeans who live in Canton. They was bombed continuously by between city, apparently aimed at the
government buildings. and buried the 24 Inmates. taken I was
to the Municipal humired people entering air rald hate these bombers, not as an enemy 40 and 50 planes.
Anti-aircraft fire is heavy, but The Central and cantern sections 100 civilians The shelters could be called panic.
hates enemy, but as a man luates t
can bo their govern- The normal capacity
the elty, torturer. Whatever on
is heavily
szen. The sky in cloudy and ble probably not one foreigner residing Tongshan was hit many times and appreciable University.
needing immediate and which was bombed urgent
traffle. on Shamcon or in the native elty who the Central Park realdential district the bombers are keeping at a thrlee during yesterday's rald. operations are admitted. I saw dropping off in pedestrion
Kwangtang
course, does not feel that this is mass murder came in for a share of the destruc-good height-United Press. provincial officials 70-year-old woman, white-haired and Vehicular traffe war; of
never before весп by tion.
As the Japanese bombers foar afforded me every opportunity to nonemic, with the shadow of death topped, in make way for the dozens on a seale
civilisation. engines
Taihang Rond and Wing Ron Road overhead on this morning's rald, there visit the places wrecked by the on her face. She lost both of her of ambulance cars and fre
hate were again heavily bombed and the are no signs of panic.. werk-end bombings.
fegs in Saturday's raid. There are clanging through the streets.
They speak openly of this of the and horror-e Englishman, the old Sun Yat Sen Univerally, now As usual, the Brlilah and French It is hardly conceivable that the no wounded soldiers in this hospital. Frar is not the reaction Japanese can claim that they were They are all civilans-civilians Chinese people. Their own feeling Cerman, the Italian and the French- used as n middle school, was struck Brkige gates barring the way into the Concessions on Shameen Island bombing military objectives.
without limbs, clvilinns with their of hate. You see it in their faces, man who lives in Canton, and whose three men.
twisted and distorted with
About 100 bombs were dropped were closed as soon as the second Of the 46 bombs dropped yester- bodies smashed almost beyond re-
rage eyes have seen horrors so inadequate.
alarm was sounded, says a Reuter day, one completed the destruction cognition-children who have lost astonishing in a race which has such ly conveyed to the rest of the world during this period.
Some of the bombs struck the message. of the Wongsha Raliway district, their eyes, women with their faces a reputation for stoiclam. You see it in newspapers.
Not One Survivor
It infant still
on this building, and reduced il 1 a A 500-1b, bomb scored a direct hit twisted steel. heap of rubble and There was not one survivor,
Water mains in the building burst, and the water, as it trickled through the debris across the footpath to the guiters, ran red.
Sixty-eight persons, lie buried in Hospital, where
one of the three bomb-proof shelters
wounded
upon
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con-
anti-air-
Fifty Planes Over
Canton, June 6. (11.30 a.m.).
In the grounds of Sun Yat-sen the hospital is 00, and only the most rickshaw coolics still plled their trade, ments In Europe may deelde, ther of the city apparently suffered very | incsfectual, so far a
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