1939-05-26 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 26, 1939.

JAPANESE RAID CHUNGKING AT DUSK

Chungking, To-day. Twenty-seven Japanese planes appeared at dusk last evening and laid a line of bombs from Central Park in the lower city of Chungking (which was bombed on May 3) to the east, hit- ting the Bank of Chungking.

The raiders also bombed in the vicinity of the Mei

Feng Bank and the Szechuen Salt Bank.

At several points bombs landed close to Central

Park.

MR. LABORINHO'S NEW POST

The alarm sounded at 6.15 (local) time) when the bombers were sighted heading up-river,

The raiders started bombing at

7 o'clock, meeting heavy aircraft fire.

anti-

Many huge fires were started. Immediately after the bombing and before the all clear was sound-

Mr. A. B. Laborinho, the Consul for Portugal in Hong Kong hased, squads of first aid units and been appointed Consul for Portugal at Johannesburg and is leaving this Colony on June 2.

The Chancellor, Mr. Francisco will Paulo de Vasconcelos Soares, be in charge of the local Consulate, 'as Acting Consul, until the arrival

of a successor.

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stretcher bearers, with many girl| MARCH workers and nurses, were seen run- OF TIME "REFUGEES, TO-DAY & TO-MORROW” ning in the direction of the bomb- ed area, while fire engines also roared towards the city fires.

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"BLACK-OUT" SAVES LATER RAID Chungking, To-day.

The chief of the Brazilian Gen-TWENTY-five

eral Staff, General Goes Monteiro,

will at the conclusion of his visit to

Japan-

ese planes raided

America, make a journey to Europe, the city shortly after 6 according to an official announce- p.m. yesterday.

ment.

General Monteiro. will visit France, England, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal.-Trans-Ocean.

THREAT TO SWATOW

Swatow, To-day.

A Japanese transport has arrived anchored less off Swatow, and is than a mile outside the harbour,

In the vicinity are also two Ja- and panese gunboats, one cruiser several armed trawlers.-Our Own Correspondent.

1,500,000 A.R.P- VOLUNTEERS

London, To-day.

It is announced that 1,500,000 volunteered for National Service up to May 20, of which 450,000 were women-Reuter Bulletin.

Many bombs were dropped. Casualties are still unknown, but| many are believed to have been killed and wounded. Some scores of buildings were wrecked.

At about 8 p.m. another air- raid alarm was sounded and the city was plunged into darkness.

Planes were heard overhead, but no bombs were dropped.

The "all clear" signal was sounded at about 9.45 p.m.

Rescue work is still going on, but official details of the damage caused and casualty list is not available. Our Own Correspon- dent.

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North Kwangtung Towns Bombed

Liephsien, To-day. Shiukwan, Yungyun and Yingtak, northern all important towns in Kwangtung, were subjected to severe air raids by Japanese planes terday.

yes-

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Eight machines attacked kwan, causing 20 civilian casualties, Ten persons were killed during

ITALIANS AT CADIZ the raid in Yungyun where about

Cadiz, To-day.

The first: Italian volunteers ar rived here yesterday by special train and will embark · next Italy

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20 bombs were released:

Yingtak was raided by 32 Japan- ese planes. Central. News,

CONSCRIPTION BILL PASSED

London, To-day. The Military Training Bill was read a third time in the House of Lords yesterday.

The amendments to the Bill' _in] both the Lords and Commons will be disposed of by to-day.

went

Bill Will the receive Royal accorded yester- vecand ́· Auxiliary Ang its third read- Reuter Bulletin.

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