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From CHINA.
Telegram (en clair) from ir. Blunt, (Canton).
D.
(Wireless)
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8 p..
No. 8.
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25th January, 1938.
25th January, 1938.
25th January, 1938.
Addressed to British Embassy Shanghai No. 14.
My telegram No. 12.
Further extensive bombing of railways has continued
daily since January 19th. Fairly heavy damage to tracks on Canton Hankow Railway and minor damage on Canton Kowloon
Railway, Trains on Canton Hankow railway have been suspended
for two days.
Repeated to Jommander-in-Chief, Hankow, Foreign Office and
Hongkong.