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Shanghai, To-day.

IN TEARS IN The Japanese flagship Idzumo continues to BOMBING RAID

have a charmed existence under persistent Chinese aerial attacks.

At 11.30 this morning Shanghai witnessed the most serious yet of the Japanese anti-aircraft ac- tion as seven Chinese planes flew over in the vicinity of the Idzumo and dropped five bombs.

Shanghai, To-day.

The “China Mala authoritatively that finite decision the military ference with Governm

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destroyer HMS. Duncan, now Japanese warships in harbour loos- All those on board the British tion of the Japanese areas and the south flashed overhead in the direc-

anchored at the British navalled a fierce hail of anti-aircraft and buoy off the Bund, had a grand-

machine-gun fire: stand view of the Sino-Japanese aerial activity as the vessel came up-river-from-Woosung with re

One of them exploded on the pontoon near the flagship, a second blew up on the ground within 100 yards and a third hit the water perilously close.

Several fires have started near the Japanese inforcements of British Marines Consulate-General, alongside of which the Idzumo on board, and crowded the deck is docked.

The A.A. guns of the Japanese warships in har- bour splattered the skies steadily for five minutes, after which the Chinese planes disappeared to the west across the Settlement and French Concession.

Soon after a number of Japanese planes took to the air. Reuter.

FRENCH WARNING TO AIRCRAFT

Shanghai, To-day. Dramatic development in the Shanghai situa- tion this morning was the issuing of a firmly-word- ed proclamation by the French authorities address- ed to both the Chinese and Japanese, forbidding aircraft of the warring parties to fly over the French Concession.

The "Primauguet," flagship of the French Asiatic Squadron, as well as two other smaller warships, have been moved up-river and are now lying off the French Bund.

The move is apparently a result of the procla- mation and is believed to signify that any aircraft flying over the French Concession will be fired on.

Our Own Correspondent.

MIDDLESEX REGIMENT COMING HERE

Singapore, To-day.

The First Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, ear-

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to watch the operations.

A Japanese destroyer a quarter

of a mile to the south of the British naval buoy joined in the attack, rocking the Shanghai Club and sur- rounding buildings.

British women registering for

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While the Duncan was mooring a frightened as to break into tears.- solitary Chinese bomber from the Renter.

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