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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 8,-1988

LONG CARAVANS TREKKING OUT OF CANTON LAST NIGHT "China Mail" Special Correspondent's Story Japanese Bombing-TRIPLE

Row Upon Row Of Empty Houses

(From Our Staff Correspondent)

Canton, To-day.

Canton last night seems an abandoned city. Shop- keepers and householders have either barri- caded themselves indoors or have joined the thousands who are leaving in a seemingly never-ending exodus on foot, by ricksha or wheelbarrow.

GOLDEN JUBILEE

The Rev. Mother Rozario Roc- ca, Mother Clementina Oliveira and Mother Cleofe Bosetti will celebrate their fifty years in reli- gious life at the Canossian Insti- tute to-morrow.

A Special service will be said by Bishop Valtorta at the Con- vent Chapel at 6 a.m. and 5.30 p.m.

INJURED INNOCENCE

Long caravans of rickshas, bearing refugees, each OF JAPANESE

with a pitiful handful of personal belongings, are winding their way silently through the streets.

The night express from Kowloon has been arriving two hours late owing to the extra trains which are leaving for the Colony.

The express is frequently held up in a siding to let pass about half a dozen refugee trains, jammed to the limit.

Although thousands are still leaving for Hong Kong, countless others, under the impression ap- parently that entry into the Bri- tish Colony will be denied them, are trekking into the interior.

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SILENT AS GRAVE

FRENCH POLICY IN SANJAK

Antioch, To-day.

SHANGHAI, TO-DAY. AN ATTITUDE OF INJURED INNOCENCE WAS ASSUMED BY

ANGLO-FRENCH DEMARCHE IN PRAGUE

BERLIN, TO-DAY, RENEWED DIPLOMATIC AC- TIVITY IS BEING SHOWN BY THE BRITISH AND FRENCH GOVERNMENTS IN THE CZE- CHOSLOVAK PROBLEM, ACCOR- DING TO THE PARIS CORRES- PONDENT OF THE "BERLINER TAGEBLATT" YESTERDAY EVENING.

He declares that the British government intends make a demarche in Prague in order to accelerate the solution of the minorities pro- blem and to urge Prague to meet the demands of Ethnic groups far as possible.

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The French will probably be party

THE JAPANESE NAVAL SPOKESMAN AT THIS MORN-to this demarche, concludes the cor- ING'S PRESS CONFERENCE IN respondent, "especially as several CONNECTION WITH THE AIR authoritative persons here express their disappointment at the slow- ness with which the ministers think they can still deal with these ques- tions."-Trans-Ocean.

RAIDS 'ON CANTON,

He stated that accounts of the raids had been lopsided, concen- trating on civilian casualties and omitting to mention hits registered on military objectives.

When pressed by foreign news- paper correspondents, the spokes- man admitted that civilian casual- ties had been very high.

BOMBING EXCUSE

The French Commander-in-Chief

Chan Pak-ling, 40, was this morn-. ing sentenced to six months' hard in the Sanjak of Alexandretta, General Collet, summoned repre-sence of military establishments in at the Central Magistracy, for re- This he attributed to the pre- labour by Mr. W. J. Lockhart Smith The area around the Pearl sentatives of all non-Turkish in- congested districts and added: "It turning to the Colony from life River Bridge and the Provincia! habitants of the Sanjak to meet would be a good idea if Chinese banishment starting in June 1937. Government buildings, which re-

civilians in Canton followed the Defendant said he had to come back ceived the brunt of Monday's him yesterday and again requested example of Hankow and evacuat- to Hong Kong because of bombings, is now as silent as the them either to induce their adher-ed."Reuter.

grave.

I walked through this district ents to inscribe themselves in the

late to-night. The only human Turkish electoral lists or to enjoin

beings to be seen were rescue them to abstain entirely from workers women and men in

blue, overalls and Boy Scouts

voting.

still turning over piles of debris The aim of this pressure is to in the hope of extricating vic-ensure a substantial majority tims of the bombing, and work ing by the dim flickering light of hurricane lamps.

for the Turks but, it is stated, the delegates of the non-Turkish nationalities once more refused to yield to the French demand. MANY STILL BURIED

On the other hand, it is con- That many are still pinned un-sidered likely that the Circas- der the wreckage was evidenced sian and Kurd elements will ul- by the nauseating smell. No-one timately submit. Reports here could still be living under the from Damascus yesterday, state tons of masonry which litter the that all political parties in Syria area, but many bodies remain to have combined to appoint a be recovered and to swell the committee for the defence of the ghastly toll still further.

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BOMBING EMPTY HOUSES The total casualties in the gion of the Government Offices yes terday was not more than fifty.

The damage was extensive, scores of huge bombs having wreaked con- siderably havoc,

The raiders, however, have been bombing what are to a large extent, empty houses, The entire area has been evacuated..

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interests of the Arab population in the Sanjak.

This committee, it is stated, decided to proclaim June 8 as "National Sanjak Day" in the whole of Syria and to organise public collections throughout the country on behalf of the San- jak Arabs.

ARMENIANS TO FIGHT Rumours current here, which cannot be verified, assert that some thousands of Amenians are now gathered in the mountain- Tragic scenes are still witnessed, ous district of Sanjak known as however.

Jebel Moussa and are resolved to I saw one woman go out of her offer arined resistance should mind. She was wandering about Turkish troops invade, th” (San- apparently harmless, crying out oc-jak.

casionally for her husband. Then It is announced that General the terrible strain of the last few Collet has expelled an unofficial days had sudden effect, and in a representative of the Syrian Gov- moment she was wildly mad, scream-ernment from the territory of ing terribly, bloodcurdling.

Sanjak. -Trans-Ocean.

"bombing of Canton.

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