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FIFTY-TWO

KEEP

AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST

BUTTER

PLANES

CANTON ON JUMP

No Moment Of Peace For City Since Early Morning

HOWARD

HUGHES'

PROGRESS

Moscow, To-day.

Mr. Howard Hughes' machine was sighted over Krasnoyarsk, 1,800 miles beyond Omsk at 3.31. o'clock B.S.T.--Reuter.

FRENCH NOTE TO JAPAN ON PARACELS

Five Hours Without Respite From Bombings

Canton, 12.30 p.m., To-day.

Canton has not enjoyed a moment of peace since 7.35 a.m., to-day when the first air raid alarm was sounded, Japanese planes coming over in relays, and bombing both the city and areas for miles around.

"ARREST" OF H.K. STEAMER

The "arr s.s. Anjou

Monday

on

of the 290-ton almost ten hours by three Japanese warships, close to the Colony's waters, was officially confirmed this morning on the arrival of the

vessel from Macau.'

Captain J. A. Place, interview-

ed on board this morning told

the "China Mail" that a full re-

port of the incident had been filed with the local Portuguese

The air raid alarm is still on and correspondents

are confined on Shameen unable to go abroad | Consulate. to ascertain the damage and casualties in to- day's heavy bombardments.

This is

believed to be the Tokyo, To-day,

French Ambas- longest continuous raid that Can-

In a Note the sador in Tokyo handed to the fewer than 52 planes have pass- Japanese Foreign Minister yester-ed and repassed over the city day, the French Government offi- and have visited Whampoa, Fat- shan, Sheklung, Chungfah, cially notified the Japanese Gov- Vingtak and Lokchong. ernment that it has taken posses- sion of the Paracel Islands.

ton has ever experienced. No DAMAGE TO U.S.

In exercise of their sovereign rights, the French authorities in Indo-China recently sent ad- ministrative and police offi- cials to the islands."

According to a telephone mes- sage received from Lokchong, that town has been bombed very severely.

PROPERTY

Shanghai, To-day.

The owners of the boat, Messrs. Yiu Lee Steamship Com- pany, stated that the vessel was detained for more than nine hours. Her cargo was thorough- ly searched. The captain had given them a full report on the incident.

supposed that the tanks were des- The equipment of the American troyed. because the Chinese feared Standard Oil Company near Kiu-the contents would fall into Ja- kiang has partly been destroyed by panese hands should they succeed Chinese, it was reported by neutral in taking Kiukiang. observers yesterday.

The equipment of the British Two large pontoons were des-loil companies is so far undisturb- Canton itself has suffered from three spasms of aerial troyed and the third damaged. It is ed. Trans-Ocean. bombardment, and the Christian

The note further emphasises Village on Honam Island, the that France will not interfere Saichuen district, and the area with Japan's economic interests near the Seventy-Two Martyrs in the Paracel Islands, for exam- Monuments have been successive- ple, with her fisheries and galy bombed in the course of the thering of phosphate fertilisers forenoon. Router.

Domei reports from Hong Kong declaring that a large number of

Canton, To-day. Japanese planes are again raid- French naval units have gathering tire city of Canton, the first ed near Paracel Islands in the alarm sounding at 7.35 o'clock last few days. watching every and the machines appearing over movement of the Japanese fleet, the city at about 8.05 a.m. and adding that great quantities

of arms, munitions and provi-

So far about 20 bombs have

sions have been landed on the been dropped in the vicinity of islands, have been officially de- nied in Paris.

Trans-Ocean.

AIR RAID ON ICHANG

noon.

Ichang, To-day.

Government three bombs appear to have been dropped near the Pearl River bridge. Reu ter

the Provincial offices, while tw

FAIR WEATHER

The Royal Observatory

ports

Ichang, lying at the com- mencement of the Yangtze rapids and gorges, was attacked by nine Japanese planes yesterday after that a weak anti-cyclone covers the Owing to Intense Chinese-anti-Pacific to the east of Japan. The aircraft gun fire, they flow at a depression over N.E., China – i8 stationary. Pressure is relatively high altitude, dropping: 80 siles in

the eastern suburbs, ¡low over Tongking and the southern

Central Philippine Islands. Forecast,

S. E. winds, moderate, fair

Damage was slight, -

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