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From CHINA.
Telegram (en clair) from Mr. Blunt, (Canton).
D.
(Wireless)
R.
4 P.il.
No. 4.
0:0:0:0
14th January, 1938.
14th January, 1938.
14th January, 1938.
14th.
Addressed to British Embassy Shanghai No. 8 of January
My telegram No. 7.
An informed that on January 12th Japanese aeroplanes
dropped 48 bombs on Hoihow, Hainan Island and that casualties
were over 150. On January 13th Canton Hankow Railway reported
bombed twice in neighbourhood Kwuntin and Sumbang stations.
Seventy feet of track damaged.
by two incendiary bombs.
Kuntin station badly burned
Repeated to Foreign Office No. 4, Governor Hongkong No. 4,
General Officer Comending Hongkong No. 4, Consul General Hankow
No. 5.