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TOKYO QUARREL WITH FRANCE OVER HAINAN

Possibility Of Military Pact With China

JAPANESE RENEW RAIDS

ON CANTON CITY

Canton, To-day.

The air raid alarm sounded at 5.30 this morning and 12 planes, in formations of three, flew over the city and dropped a number of bombs in an unsystematic manner throughout the City, most of which fell in the Central Park vicinity.

A number of houses were de- casualties were molished but slight, official estimate being 10 It was killed and 30 injured. fortunate that the

district had

been largely évacuated.

The all clear sounded at

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JAPANESE

ALLEGATIONS

Tokio, To-day.

GOVT. HOUSE

SENTRY FIRES

INTO PETROL

Franco-Chinese negotiations regarding mutual TANK OF CAR

It

5.

military measures for the defence of the South China island of Hainan are going on at the pre- sent moment, according to a Japanese news

agency.

is asserted that representatives of the Chinese Central Government have gone to Hanoi in French Indo-China to negotiate with the gov- ernor of that territory.

An extraordinary incident oc- curred at Government House yesterday afternoon, a sentry belonging to the Royal Scots fir- ing two rounds of live ammuni- tion, one of which penetrated the petrol tank of a motor-car be- longing to a Chinese which was

passing at the time.

The sentry, who was seized by the sergeant of the guard, col- unconscious condi- The fact is emphasised that with military advisers and war lapsed in an such a military pact would con- material deliveries to be made tion immediately after the inci- stitute an extreme peril to Japan via Haifong to the South China dent, and it is thought that he and intimates that Hainan will province of Yunnan since Canton was overcome by the heat and

temporarily lost his reason. o'clock but a warning blast again in all probability become the ob- is being abandoned for reasons

His possession of live jective of Japanese bombard- of safety.

In return for this assistance, munition is, however, being in- ments should such agreement be

the Japanese agency declares,vestigated. concluded.

the Chinese Government has pro-It is understood that His Ex- mised France certain mining and cellency the Governor was play- transportation concessions in ing bowls on the lawn when the China. Trans-Ocean.

shooting occurred.

sounded two hours later. On the occasion, the second

raiders arcided the city and concentrated their attention on the railways, dropping bombs in several places on the Canton-Hankow and Can- ton-Kowloon lines.

TELEPHONE OUT OF

ACTION.

As a result, the telephone be- tween Canton and Hong Kong has been put out of commission and several sections of the track have been torn up.

It is, moreover, asserted, that in spite of the repeated French denials, a secret agreement does exist between France and China according to which France pledged herself to provide China

JAPANESE

All clear was sounded shortly RAIL SMASH

before 11 o'clock.

Reuter.

1,200 HANKOW FOREIGNERS COMING HERE

Hankow, To-day.

It is learned that 1,200 for- eigners are evacuating on board a special international train which will leave here on June 24.

The train is expected to pro- ceed dírect to Kowloon without touching at Canton.

The National Relief Commit- tee announces that the number of Chinese either directly or in- directly affected by the war total 150 million, while destitutes total 30 million. Router.

DISASTER

Okayama, To-day, Over 20 passengers, includ- ing 16 schoolchildren, were killed, and 150 were injured near Kumayama, on the main line between Kobe and Shimonoseki, when

an up- train and a down-train were thrown off the track at the same spot due to the col- lapse of the rail-track after heavy rains.

It is learned that an ex- cursion train crowded with schoolchildren was on its way to Kyoto when it ran into an earth fall in the dark- ness, overturned and fell across the down line, where- upon the down train crashed into the wreck and several carriages were derailed. Reuter.

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