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Hundreds Of Casualties In To-Day's Canton Raid

Two Acres Of Buildings Laid Waste

(From Our Staff Representative)

Canton, 1.15 p.m., To-day.

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Eight cases of cholera were re- ported to the Medical Department yesterday. Of these, three each came from Victoria and Kowloon and two from Shaukiwan.

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Last week's figures, to midnight A force of 15,000 men, con- One hundred and two persons are known to be dead, on Saturday, show thirty-one new sisting of various nationalities

159 have been rushed to hospital, and scores cholera cases, distributed as follows:

by the Russian of dead and dying are lying still buried beneath Victoria, 18: Kowloon, 8: Shauki Regiment of the Shanghai Volun- wan, 1:- Rural Hong Kong, 2: New teer Corps has been mobilised piles of ruins in great devastated areas, as the Territories, 1, Harbour 1. Seven- with the object of maintaining result of this morning's indiscriminate bomb-teen deaths from cholera were re-peace and order in International

Settlement of Shanghai. ing of Canton City.

Nineteen, typhoid cases were no This measure is due to persist- Five 500-lb. bombs burst simultaneously at Tai-tified last week, 18 of them from ent rumours of a forthcoming pingsha, just behind the offices of the Kwang-Victoria and four from Kowloon. attack on Shanghal of the Chin-

Some 105 deaths were, dué to ese Irregulars, tung Provincial Bank, and laid waste more tuberculosis. than two acres of flimsy dwellings. The casual- on and around the factory. ty toll in this terrible scene of carnage cannot yet been estimated at all, To-day's raids were carried out was, however, weeping bitterly terrible days of June. There is an the outbreak

August 13 is the anniversary of in of hostilities by the Fifth Squadron of the when rescued, crying for her bro-lawful hush, as of a doomed city, Shanghai. All amusement estab- Japanese Naval Air Force, which ther who was buried deep below which is nerve-wracking in the a few days ago, relieved the when she was found.

atmosphere of ill-omen which it lishments will be closed for three Third Squadron on the aircraft- One nearly demented father creates. There is a dreadful fear days from August 11th till 18th carrier lying in the Tongkawan was frantically imploring recue everywhere that the arrival of the and shops will close evenings as area. The local authorities de-workers to dig down for his fa-

new squadron means a repetition clare that they have reason

The Japanese authorities have to mily, who were buried at least 30 of the terrorisation which began fear that there will be a tragic feet below the debris on which on May 28 and lasted for a fort- also taken all necessary precau-

tions. Trans-Ocean. intensification of the bombing by he was standing, with practical-night. this new squadron.

ly no chance of any survivors.

tion.

ALARM SOUNDED

STARK TRAGEDY

were

As a matter of fact, as I am One woman was taken out with telephoning, the air raid alarm is a child strapped to her back and sounding for the second time to- another tightly clasped to her day.

breast. Both the children The bombs dropped this morn-dead, but the woman, by some ing were almost all of them of freak of chance, still lived. the 500-lb. variety, which creat- One of the bombs that hit this ed widespread property destruc-region, demolished the 49th Primary Girls' School, but fortun- Two bombs which fell in the ately although numerous girls stay- "sanctuary zone" fell just behind ed there, they had been hurriedly the Grand Theatre where a film evacuated from the dormitory a Mystery Squadron" is being few minutes before the blast. shown, and blasted rows of Another bomb burat in the houses so completely that the de- street, and snapped neatly in two bris is piled thirty feet high, a huge steel electrio standard. giving the impression of a terri- TAIPINGSHA SHAMBLES fic internal upheaval, lifting The Taipingsha area, Just behind houses high into the air to topple the Bund, is a shambles, any sem- down.

blance of structure having disap- The death-roll here is probably peared over an area of two acres the heaviest of this morning's as though crushed by a giant hand. raid. Not for some time will the Five huge bombs burat here so exact number of killed be known. swiftly one after the other that the FRANTIC FATHER road sounded like a single detona-

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I watched rescue squads extrition.

Ten bombs were dropped on the cate a young girl who had been

at Saichuen, two| buried beneath a huge pile of old waterworks heavy timbers, earth and bricks. of them exploding as direct hits in Although she had been buried the compound, The work of wreck- for three hours when taken out, ing the cement factory at Saichuen she was miraculously unhurt ex-was completed, no fewer than cept for a cut on the head. Shelfifteen missiles being dropped in,

'It is said that attacks planned for August 13, against members of the New Government Since the raid, Canton has sunk and against Japanese inhabitants. into a gloom..-reminiscent of the

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