CO129-566-3 Canton-Kowloon Railway 4-4-1938 - 20-1-1939 — Page 67

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Extract from Doity Telegraph -31.538

RAIDERS FORCED HIGH

BY GUNFIRE

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT

HONG-KONG, May 30

To-day the Japanese objectives at Canton appear to have been the Government offices in the Central Park, the power station, waterworks, and factories in the Saikwan area, and the Taishatau railway station, the terminus of the Canton-Kowloon line. The heavy Chinese gunfire, however, kept the raiders high, and most of their bombs fell wide of these targets

To-day many Chinese refugees were allowed on to Shameen Island, where they found comparative safety. Trains and steamers leaving Canton are crowded with refugees, and Hong-kong is becoming acutely overcrowded. Floods are aggra- vating the distress of Canton, the river having risen to within 18in. of the level of the city streets.

HONG-KONG, May 30.-British mis- sionaries in Canton have telegraphed to the Archbishop of Canterbury appealing to him to draw the attention of the public to the bombing of civilians and to ask! the British Government to protest to the Japanese. Reuter,