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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 13, 1988,

FOREIGNERS IN

MAY LEAVE

CANTON

Compulsory Evacuation Reported Looming Nearer

TERRORISM IN SHANGHAI

SHANGHAI, TO-DAY. STRIKING FIVE TIMES WITHIN LESS THAN THREE HOURS, TERRORISTS RAM-

PAGED LAST NIGHT WHEN HAND GRENADES WERE

Fear Of Further Bombing Of Waterfront

(From A Special Correspondent)

Canton, To-day.

SANJAK ELECTIONS

Antioch, To-day.

The electoral commission in the |Sanjak, of Alexandretta received a telegram yesterday from the Com- mittee of Five, instructing it to proceed with the task of registering electors in order that the general

HURLED IN HALF A DOZEN With the toll of human lives taken by the Japanese election in the Sanjak may take,

BUSY STREETS, MOSTLY IN THE NANKING ROAD AREA, RESULTING IN FIVE CHIN- ESE AND ONE JAPANESE BE- ING SLIGHTLY WOUNDED.

No arrests have been made. Among the places bombed was the China Native Products Co.,

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in Nanking Road, where two Chinese passers-by were struck by fragments and slightly wounded and the American-own- ed radio station XMHA, near the Racecourse, where Chinese watchman was slightly wounded. A Japanese was wounded in the leg by a hand grenade which exploded and shattered windows of the China Travel Service in Szechuen Road.

murder squadrons now swollen to over 6,000 place as scheduled on July 16, re- dead and injured, compulsory evacuation of the gardless of the eventual outcome of the negotiations now going on small foreign community on Shameen, and Ho-between France and Turkey. Con- nam Island, mostly Americans, Britons, French sequently the work of registration will be resumed to-day-Trans- and Germans, loomed nearer to-day.

Ocean. Consular officials express much anxiety over the possibility of further bombings of the densely populated waterfront quarter on Shameen's doorstep, where the old power house and the Pearl River Bridge, designated by Japanese spokesmen as "military objectives, situated.

With bombs again

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the railways also have to cope with a never-ending exodus of civilians

from-stricken Canton.

WAITING AND WONDERING

The Kwangtùng capital, which

once boasted a population of 1,250,- are 1000, has now been reduced to

a

mere 400,000. Refugees are flock- ing to Hong Kong and as far afield as Manila and Saigon, others scat- of dropping vicinity Canton has

escapter into the country to live as best within a mile of the foreign settle-ed

and demolition, The series

Ameri- of bombing kept ment, laying waste

they can, many sleeping in the further large can and British the police on the jump and emer areas,

businessmen fields without

over a roof

their tension among foreigners, travelling from Hong gency cordons were thrown round whose nerves have been strained to peatedly leave the train to hide in

Kong re-heads. several streets while suspects breaking point by weeks of cease-ricefields while planes roar

With the Hong Kong Govern- were being searched. Reuter. less raids, is increasing:

over- ment quashing proposals to estab- head dropping tons of high explosive lish official refugee camps in the Electric light, fans and re- in an effort to cut China's lifeline. frigeration are virtually cut off as

British Colony, individuals in Can- the result of the destruction of the lies are engaged in repairing the ing the possibility of coping with Labour gangs of thousands of coo-ton and Hong Kong are now study- giant new power plant, and foreign-track in the intervals between raids, the greatest mass exodus in ers are living under wartime condi- and military supplies from Europe continue to be transported by rail through Canton to Hankow.

TWO FAMOUS BRITONS PASS

London, To-day. The death is announced of Sir Lewis Dibdin, the eminent Ecclesiastical lawyer.

The death of Dr. William Arthur Bone, the authority on chemical technology, is also announced. Reuter.

Sir Lewis Dibdin was 85 years

tions.

SHAMEEN PRECAUTIONS

Spurred on by the sight of ter- rible devastation across the narrow creek which separates the settle- ment from the Chinese city, safety- first seeking foreigners are con- structing layers of bamboo on the rooftops of their residences, ex- Perience having proved the value of providing some break to explode falling bombs upon impact.

Nervousness among the foreign population has been increased by of age. and was First Church the statements of Chinese spokes-

Estates Commissioner from 1905 men prophesying further indis- until 1931, when he became an criminate bombing by Japanese Ecclesiastical Commissioner. He planes as a prelude to an invasion of was also Vicar-General of the Pro-Kwangtung. vince of Canterbury until 1934. He was a Member of the Royal Com mission on Church Discipline, 1904-6, and on Divorce, 1909-12.

en-

Dr. W. A. Bone was 77 years of age. He specialised in gas gineering, surface combustion, and full economy.........

R.A.0.C. SERGEANT

BEREAVED

The funeral is taking place this afternoon of Mrs. Philip, wife of a sergeant in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, who died at the Military Hospital yesterday, after a brief illness.

The R.M.S. "Empress of Asia" is due at Nagasaki from Shanghai at 10 a.m.

AMAZON, DIVISION Preparations are being rushed to meet a large-scale Japanese attack.

Thousands of troops, includ ing a division of Amazons, are being · hurriedly trained by foreign instructors and con- crete pillboxes and trenches are being constructed in an in- tricate network around Canton. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek; has personally despatched addi- tional anti-aircraft batteries to the city, but China's rapidly increasing air force is kept concentrated in the north, and Canton, has to rely on ground fire alone to keep enemy aircraft at high altitudes.

NIGHT RAIDS Taking advantage of brilliant moonlight nights, Japanese planes continued to visit the city for hours at a stretch, dropping their death dealing oggs mainly on the vital railways connecting Canton with Hong Kong, and Hankow.

Not a station in the immediate

Taxed to the limit by this con- stant stream of arms and munitions;

the

history of South China.

Meanwhile, foreigners and Chin- ese in Canton, wait and wonder what further horrors will descend on them from the skies.

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