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C. M. S. Property In Canton Bombed Area · JAPANESE LOSING Cracked Walls And "TIMES" OPINION

FIGHT WITH

HUANG HO FLOODS

Shanghai, To-day.

Broken Windows

Çanton, To-day.

Only a very fortunate chance prevented serious loss of life last night in the vicinity of St. Hilda's School, as six bombs fell within a very narrow area.

To-day's reports from the Yellow The missiles narrowly missed Dr. Scheyer's German Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University and Holy Trinity College.

River area state that it is still rain- ing and the floods have increased slightly.

The Japanese army, assisted by

Chinese farmers, is waging a fran- tic, and apparently losing, battle to stem the waters.

They are being further impeded by Chinese guerillas who are snip- ing the Japanese as they work, ac- cording to an official Japanese an- nouncement.

SAFETY ZONES

The Chinese and Japanese have now, begun hurried construction of raised dyke emplacements as safety zones along the whole length of the Lunghai Railway and at other points where it is feared the floods will spread.

Several of these premises had their walls cracked and windows broken, while a Chinese temple in the vicinity collapsed on the occupants, who were fortunately sheltering in a home-made dugout and escaped uninjured: Make --All six bombs fell so close to each other that it seems they were released together from 'one plane.

Holy Trinity College, which is run by the Church Missionary Society, is staffed by three for- eigners, the Rev. N. V. Halward, Mr. Baker and Mr. Allen.

versity, which previously hous- ed 500 students, now contains a mere 60.-Reuter,

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been the ruin of a vast amount of Allen constructive work which the Chin Mr. Halward and Mr. returned to Hong Kong for a ese Republic has undertaken with It is reported that the floods in

short visit on Wednesday, but the aid of the League's Shantung are now under control-the premises when the raid oc-

Mr. Baker presumably was on experts."-Reuter.

Reuter.

NEW DYKES

curred.

Further afield, bombs fell on Iwell-to-do residences in the Shanghai, To-day. Isuburbs beyond Central Park, Since it is impossible to repair destroying houses and apartment the broken sections of the original buildings. dykes, endeavours are made to Casualties in all cases were control the floods by the erection providentially slight, owing to of new dykes and the construction the recent large-scale of canals.

The capital of Honan, Kaifeng, which is crowded with fugitives, resembles an island. In high seas. As long as the walls of the city and the gates, which are barricad- ed with sandbags, offer resistance to the pressure of the floods, there is no immediate danger for the 'city.

RESCUE EFFORTS

Many thousand fugitives, who saved practically nothing of theh property from the floods, havo gathered on those sections of the Lunghai Railway dam which escap ed the destruction."..

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Many hundred floats are deavouring to rescue people in the Inundated area, Around the town of Chungmon, the waters of the flood formed a huge lake which covers an area of 500 square kilo-

tions, Reuter,

DIRECT HIT

evacua-

Canton, To-day.

In the course of last night's raids, two bombs dropped in the compound of St. Hilda's Girls School, the property of the Church Missionary Society.

One building suffered direct hit, being totally demo- lished, and others were serious- ly damaged.

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Fortunately there were casualties, as the school had been previously evacuated, be-. ing in the danger zone.

Almost all schools and uni- versities in Canton have now emptied, and Ling Nam, Uni-

metres, four metres deep. The lake, The Chinese peasants ir the bodies of numerous drowned people flooded area are fleeing eastwards, are floating on the surface of this

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ON CHINA FLOODS

LONDON, TO-DAY:

"IT IS STILL DIFFICULT TO GAUGE THE FLOOD'S EFFECT ON JAPANESE STRATEGY AND

CHINESE DEFENCE," SAYS THE TIMES" THIS MORNING

IN A LEADING. ARTICLE ON THE YELLOW RIVER FLOODS.

"The Japanese are now unable to be reach Chengchow, and it must Jadmitted that they are not likely to have been primarily responsible for breaching the dykes and thus de- laying their own progress,

like "The undeclared war looks dragging on for many months, and the tone of the inspired Japanese press suggests that the expense and duration of the struggle are begin- ning to tell on the nerves of Japan- ese politicians, who cannot forget that one of the campaign's results, which was nominally undertaken with the object of detaching China from the League of Nations,

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