CO129-567-4 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 3-1-1938 - 3-5-1938 — Page 225

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From CHINA.

Telegram (en clair) from ir. Blunt, (Canton).

D.

(Wireless)

R.

8 p..

No. 8.

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25th January, 1938.

25th January, 1938.

25th January, 1938.

Addressed to British Embassy Shanghai No. 14.

My telegram No. 12.

Further extensive bombing of railways has continued

daily since January 19th. Fairly heavy damage to tracks on Canton Hankow Railway and minor damage on Canton Kowloon

Railway, Trains on Canton Hankow railway have been suspended

for two days.

Repeated to Jommander-in-Chief, Hankow, Foreign Office and

Hongkong.