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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 7, 1988.

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JAPANESE PLANE SHOT DOWN IN KWANGTUNG RAID Japanese Bombers Leave Canton City Alone

Whereabouts Of

German Advisers

CEREMONIES GO ON DESPITE

FATHER DOWNS TELLS OF EXPERIENCES

Train Unknown RAID THREAT

Canton, 12.20 p.m., To-day.

"The "All Clear" has not yet been given, although

Canton, To-day.

"The Cantonese people will Swatow from a trip into the That he had only just arrived in Commemoration

and stricken civilians.

from Pennsylvania, who was victim airman, was revealed by Father Downs, the American missionary

no Japanese airmen have arrived over Canton continue their since the alarm was sounded at 9.55 a.m. to-day. Programme regardless of air interior when his house was bomb- There was a report in circulation that 19 planes had Kwangtung Provincial Govern

raids," said the spokesman of the ed and demolished by Japanese bombed White Cloud Mountain aerodrome and ment to Reuter this morning on the vicinity, but this is completely discredited gramme in the event of Japan the subject of Canton's pro- in official circles..` The raiders are, however, re- some speculation is being voiced People from businessmen to la- Father Downs, who was treat-

anese planes raiding the city. ported to be heavily bombing in Canton as to whether the spe- bourers will devote the entire day ed for his injuries aboard the

of the week-end raids on Swatow. both the Kowloon-Canton and the cial train carrying the German collecting relief funds for the be- U.S.S. Sacramento, arrived in Canton-Hankow Railways and military advisers to Kowloon will nefit of the wounded' soldiers war Hong Kong yesterday and is now

be able to get through.

At noon, the train was report- Over 50,000 "contribution ed to "in the vicinity of Canton" velopes" have been circulated cipally from shock as the result staying at the Maryknoll Mission but whether it had crossed the throughout Greater Canton, while of his experience:

en-at Stanley. He is suffering prin- loopline could not be ascertained. thousands of students, unheeding

PLANE SHOT DOWN

air raid sirens,

He told a "China Mail" One of the Japanese planes memorial pins.

are busy selling sentative that when the air raid repre- which raided the Canton-Han-

alarm was sounded, he took re- kow line was shot down at Ying-in Canton sent messages world-rooms of the house. Soon after- South Seas Chinese organisations fuge in one of the ground floor tak, between. Canton and Shui- wide urging members to subscribe wards a terrific explosion occur kwan, when A. A. guns scored towards Canton's contribution to red, he was hurled to the ground their first direct hit for many the country. months, according to an official

and buried in debris. statement.

CANTON AIR RAID ALARM

The

Canton, To-day.

air raid alarm was sound at 9.55 a.m. to-day and the city immediately prepared for a. serious bombardment, the feeling being that the Japanese are-- almost certain to choose this day for a big demonstration of frightfulness. Reuter.

Canton, 10.30 a.m. The second alarm has sounded and the raiders should be here at any moment. The weather is not favourable to bombing'as the sky is heavy with lowlying

clouds,

Rumbling in the distance has been heard already, which may mean that the railway is being heavily bombed or may be

thunder. Our Staff sentative.

FOREIGN

Repre-

VIEW OF FUTURE

Shanghai, To-day..

.

SIX DIRECT HITS The Japanese scored six dir- joining house, and both were ect hits on his house and the ad- reduced to ruins.

Local celebrations for to-day Thirty-five

which is described, as "Anti-Ag- machines, in groups of 12 and 23, took part tion Day" include mass memorial gression and National Reconstruc- in to-day's attack, concentrat-meeting at Sun Yat Sen's Memorial ing their attention on Fatshan, Hall which was damaged six weeks It was not until he had been Whampoa, the Canton-Hankow ago by Japanese bombs. Railway.

MEMORIAL MONUMENT

helped into the street by a ser- Despite the alarm, Canton

vant that he discovered that he commemorated the anniversary minent officials will address the ter and that his left hand was Gen. Wu-Teh-chen and other pro-had been struct by a bomb splin- with a mass meeting, addressed meeting, which will followed by the badly injured. by Governor Wu Te-chen, and by Three Minutes' Silence. From Our Staff Representative.

OFFICIAL STATEMENT

Canton, To-day.

a

laying of a foundation stone of a This injury was attended by ing victims on the damaged East Memorial Monument to the bomb-| the naval doctor on the American

arship Swato

Bund, and which was the scene of the death of hundreds of civilians on day will be the cut June 6.

power

Nat

An official statement says that the Japanese carried out exten- Three minutes of silence will be sive raids in South China this observed next. The signal for thely displayed morning. Twelve heavy bomb-

the

Haga ar rominent- halfmast on many buildings. ers raided the Canton-Hankow there are no details.

The people seem undisturbed by Railway, but only eleven return- Later, 23 planes penetrated as the fact that an air raid alarm has ed. One was shot down at Ying- some bombs on Whampoa. The been-sounded over two and half hours tak, 90 miles north of Canton, by far as Fatshan and Whampoa, and appear to be going about their A.A. guns.

and are believed to have dropped business with a grim determination- The railway is believed to "All Clear" was given at 12.80 and also oblivious of everything have been severely bombed, but p.m. Reuter.

else. Reuter.

Future developments in thej Sino-Japanese War form the subject of lively discussions in OPTIKOTECHNA international circles here on the occasion of the anniversary of the opening of hostilities on July

It is pointed out that the Jap- anese now occupy some of most important industrial and com- mercial parts of Chinese terri- tory.

International circles here are inclined to believe that the main body of the Japanese troops operating in the Yangtse region will not advance along the river's banks but will seek to march on Nanchang along the Kiukiang- Nanchang Railway.

Hence important military de- velopments may shortly be ex- pected.

While the provinces which are still unoccupied by enemy troops remain solidly behind Chiang Kai-shek, it is the conviction of internationalTM - circles here that the struggle will continue even in the event of the fall of Hankow.

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