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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST

BUTTER

BLOWN UP IN

TO-DAY'S RAIDS

Direct Hits On Lingnam University Campus

MISSING

FOREIGNERS

SAFE: HELL

Foreigners Have Narrow Escape

On Honam

(From Our Staff Representative)

Canton, To-day, 2.30 p.m.,

AT SAICHUEN Some thirty to forty foreigners had a narrow es-

(From Our Staff Representative) CANTON, 2.30 P.M., TO-DAY.

FEARS FOR THE SAFETY OF MR. A. E. MURPHY AND

cape in to-day's raid when the Japanese bomb- ers scored three direct hits on Lingnam Uni- versity, more than a mile from any conceivable military objective.

MR. LEO VISER, MALCOLM A Chinese walking across the compound was blown

EM-

AND COMPANY'S PLOYEES AT THE SAICHUEN WATERWORKS, HAVE NOW BEEN RELIEVED.

Both are safe, after a night of terror, though only Mr. Murphy has, so far, managed to get through to Shameen. With him I he brought Tubby, his two- month-old terrier, who too had passed through a terrific bom- bardment, but was still able to wag his tail.

Alone at Saichuen (Mr. Viser

HONG KONG’S

HOTTEST DAY THIS SUMMER

To-day the temperature in Hong Kong soared to its highest level for the present summer, the official reading at p.m. being 89.4 degrees Fahrenheit.

Yesterday's temperature, maxi- mum of 89 was the highest until to-day.

course of the afternoon.

It was expected that the 90 to pieces and three others were wounded. The degree mark would be passed for University buildings were not hit, as by a mira- the first time this summer in the cle, but the peril is shown by

one crater reach-] The highest temperature on ing to within a few yards, is thirty feet record for the month of June is

|91.5 in 1898. deep and thirty wide.

have just returned from a tour of Wongsha, where the fire brigade are struggling against the dis- astrous fire in the petrol stocks. The whole sta- tion has been converted into a shambles, though casualties were few.

Although June is one of the Colony's rainy months, none has fallen since May 31.

and for some

unknown reason,

the raiders methodically bombed

the tops of the hillside about 300 yards away. The church shook having left before the moonlight Strangest thing of all, al- Mr. Baker, of Holy Trinity under the detonations but no raid) Mr. Murphy went through an though practically every build-| experience which he is loath to dis-ing in the region of the station Church, told me that they watch-damage was caused.

ed the bombing from the roof has been levelled to the ground. the railway lines themselves are

cuss.

CONCENTRATED ATTACK

TRAIN HIT

The night raiders concentrated undamaged and traffic is Atill on Saichuen, bombing repeatedly possible. with missiles of the 500-lb. variety, shattering the entire area with de- vastrating explosions.

The passen.

The bombers scored a direct hit on a train which had just ar Mr. Murphy lost count of the rived from Hankow, without for number of explosions, but they ex-eigners on board. ceeded thirty and may have been gers had left the station about two minutes when the bombs be- forty or fifty.

The whole train Eight direct hits were scored on gan to drop.

in flames. when I arrived the Power Station. It is now be was yond hope of restoration. It has and there was little hope of sav. been left a complete ruin.

ing it.

A bomb actually struck the lo- Six direct hits on the waterworks: have increased the damage caused comotive and huge, pieces of steal in yesterday's raid, then estimated flew hundreds of yards through to be in the region of $700,000 on the air.

this British property..

OBJECTIVE PUZZLE The Rev. N. V. Halward and

Most extraordinary thing, how ever, was that while bombs were which a 500-lb struck a pile of iron dropping all round it, while every window was shattered, great pipes pipes stored at the waterworks in the development connection with t were hurling through the air, the residence of Mr. Murphy at Sat-scheme. One of these, pipes weigh- chuen on the waterworks site was ing at least two tone was lifted bodi- ly and thrown clean over the power not hit.

station, for a distance of some hun- dreds of yards. Any embolia Dedikį Mr. Murphy, however, was dur. Eon My Murphy it was a night ing the raid, in the vicinity of the of hell, best imagined by his re- power station, on which the raiders fusal to talk about it, beyond giv- concentrated, and it was only by ing a brief outline of the damage surveying the amiracle, that he came through he discovered on

"wreck? this morning Our Own aliye;"

WHIRLING PIPES

He told me of one incident in: Correspondent,

Mr. Hal- (Continued on Page 24)

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