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"China Mail" Air Reconnaissance Puts End To Rumours

(By R. A. E. WATSON)

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EX-EDITOR FOUND BEHEADED

Shanghai, To-day.

Yn Ah-yung, alleged to be a Ta Tao Government official, form- erly editor of the popular Chinese paper, Chin Tao, was found be headed in a Hongkow Hotel this morning-Reuter.

blasted their villages into bits.

chartered this morning, in order to clear machine from the skies which had After a flight in a plane specially chartered this morning, in order to clear up nebulous reports of close approach of Japanese troops to the Hong Kong border, and of the cutting of the Kowloon - Canton Railway, I can state definitely that there are no Japanese troops within a 15- mile radius of the border and that yesterday's tentative landing at Po On has been abandoned.

PEACEFUL APPEARANCE We had been circling round and round over the road and railway, where the presence of long lines of rolling stock indicated that all K.C.R. had been brought safely over the border, and now we turned west towards Shatau and Deep Bay.

There are no Japanese warships or transports off the Namtau Penin-trains south of the break in the

sula, the Japanese have not reached Shatau, just outside the New Territories border, and there is a complete absence of military acti- vity on either side of the railway from Shumchun to Lilong.

Only movement on the Chinese side of the road leading from Kwangtung into Sheungshui, is that of refugees, who are now swarming into Bri-- tish territory in hundreds.

ALTHOUGH PINGWU, WHERE THE JAPANESE ARE RUMOUR- two trucks, they were all on foot,

They had obviously come from ED TO HAVE CUT THE RAILWAY, WAS PARTIALLY OB- SCURED BY HAZE, THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY far inland, as they were too listless though here and there an upturned SHOWS NONE OF THOSE SIGNS WHICH USUALLY AC-to pay any attention to our plane, COMPANY A MILITARY ADVANCE. Both the pilot, Flight-Lieutenant Longfield, and myself, therefore face showed that someone had a came to the conclusion that Japanese claims to have reached dread memory of another kind of the Railway are premature.

From a height of 8,000 feet above the British border we had a per- fect view of the country west of the railway, and could see as far as a line drawn from Cheungmuktau, on the K.C.R. to Tamshui.

Not only were there no burning villages, but not a single Japanese

plane was in the air.

In view of these facts, it seemed

this morning that the Japanese ad-

SUPERB VIEW Taking off from Kai Ták in the vance in strength from Tamshui Far East Flying School's Hornet via Lungkong has been halted, or Moth two-seater, we gained height| that only small mobile advance rapidly over Kowloon and passed the over Taimoshan at a height of 7,500 parties are striking towards

aircraft feet. Railway, unsupported by or artillery.

The view all round was superb," of Blas except in the direction BIAS BAY CONCENTRATION

Bay, where masses of clouds hid While the concentration in Bias anything the Japanese might have Bay remains at more or less the been doing. We were to know more

west same strength, the sea

of of these clouds later. Hong Kong is completely devoid of Japaness ships.

is.

We flew straight to the frontier, and by the time we had reached Although visibility south-west of Shamchun, had come down to Hong Kong was perfect (we could about 3,000 feet.

· BLACK CLUSTERS even see Macao), the area from Taishan Bay north to Chapin Bay Except for black clusters on the was somewhat obscured by clouds Sheungshuf-Canton road, composed of hundreds of men, women and and mist.

It is impossible to say, therefore, children, the frontier was quiet.

We flew down to under 1,000 feet whether that the Japanese naval concentration observed yesterday to get, a glimpse of the refugees, -in Taishan Bay, has moved further They presented a pathetic sight. up into the Delta, where Bocca With the exception of two or three

• Tigris - Forts are situated‹ › or families, who were perched pre- whether it has withdrawn,” *** Icariously on luggage loaded onto

All the fertile plain from the British border to Namtau lay be

and fore us, smiling in the sun, one found it hard to connect war- fare with this peaceful country. --As-yet- nothing has come to dis- turb this peace, though deserted villages indicated that the inhabi- SHATAU NORMAL

British. tants had long since fled. In Deep Bay, which is

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