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CANTON-KO LOUW RAILWAY bombing by Japanese seroplanes
on October 14th and 15th.
No. 140
2 copies)
Copies to:
Embassy, Kanking Ho. 154 Foreign Office No. 61 (à 2 copies)
dong dong ho. Độ
Air Attaché, hanghai No.5
8. K. O. vest diver No. 90
Swatow No. 26.
British Consulate-üeneral,
CANTON,
19th Deteber, 1937.
sir,
With reference to my telegrʊms Nos. 105 and 106, I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that, on October 14th at about 1.40 p.m. eleven Japanese aero- planes raided the Canton-Kowloon railway and dropped nineteen bombs at five points between kilometres 44 and 98. Køpairs were completed by 8.00 Po Ma on the same day, and the afternoon train from Hong Zong was able to reach Canton by 2.00 a.m. on the 18th instant. in only one place was damage at all serious, and only one direct hit appears to have been scored. There were four civilians
killed by a bomb at one of the
2.
tations.
Ün üetober 15th at 11.45 a.#. 38 Japanese
aeroplanes again attacked the line in the Bast River
district. The total number of bombe dropped has not been ascertained but it must have been consider»ble. Forty were dropped at Sheklung (A
the East hiver and Tung dun (†
A) alone, aimed for
) bridges. Neither
bridge was hit and the damage done vas ngligible and was repaired before 6.00 p.m. on the same day, with the exception of the filling of a hole 25 feet deep caused
His Excellency
Sir Hughe Knatchball-Hugessen, K. C.M.Q.,
His Majesty's Ambassador,
British Embassy,
PKKING.
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