CO129-567-4 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 3-1-1938 - 3-5-1938 — Page 241

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From CHINA.

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

D.

(Wireless)

R.

4 P.il.

No. 4.

0:0:0:0

14th January, 1938.

14th January, 1938.

14th January, 1938.

14th.

Addressed to British Embassy Shanghai No. 8 of January

My telegram No. 7.

An informed that on January 12th Japanese aeroplanes

dropped 48 bombs on Hoihow, Hainan Island and that casualties

were over 150. On January 13th Canton Hankow Railway reported

bombed twice in neighbourhood Kwuntin and Sumbang stations.

Seventy feet of track damaged.

by two incendiary bombs.

Kuntin station badly burned

Repeated to Foreign Office No. 4, Governor Hongkong No. 4,

General Officer Comending Hongkong No. 4, Consul General Hankow

No. 5.