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FOREIGNERS

CANTON

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1937.

EXPRESS DISGUST

SITUATION

REPEATED JAPANESE ATTEMPTS TO BOMB CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY LINE

Nerve-Wracking 24 Hours

Canton, Sept. 27: Canton and Shameen were subjected to the most nerve-wracking twenty-four hours during the present hostilities as a result of Japanese planes' repeated attempts to bomb the

rumour, which cannot. Canton-Hankow Railway line. Wangsha Station is still intact but there is a

be confirmed, that a bridge 14 miles up the line has been hit. In any case it is expected that the Japanese raiders will return to-night "and to-morrow to continue their job. There was curfew throughout the city at 8 p.m. but Chinese and foreigners are hoping that the darkness and cloudy skies will enable the first full night's sleep to-night. "I am utterly weary." one woman told Reuter's correspondent as she was hurrying with her daughter to take refuge in a building for the 8th time since p.m., while foreigners on all sides express disgust at the present situation.

When the all-clear was sounded this afternoon, a party of Americans hurried to Wongsha. Station to take delivery of luggage when suddenly the air raid alarm screeched and the station was deserted within a few seconds the party managing to enter the cates at the British Bridge which were locked throughout the raid.

The city has been comparatively at a standstill all day long" but whatever the feeling of the Chinese populace they are carrying on as usual and weathering the strain with fortitude.

One Chinese official declared: "Warfare can be expected but this murder."

The Japanese are apparently throwing caution to the winds and are staking everything on the next few days.--Renter.

RAILWAY BOMBED AGAIN.

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Canton, Sept. 27. " After

an afternoon's suspense, the "all clear" was sounded at 430 p.m. It is rellably learned that five planes flew over the north- west part of the City along the Canton-Hankow Railway, drop- ping a number of bombs on the various points along the line. The damage is not yet known.- Reuter.

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JAPANESE PLANE ATTACK

CHINESE WARSHIP Chinktang. Sept. 27: A Japanesc plane coming from the south-east attempted to sink a Chinese war- ship patrolling пеаг here September 25.

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One bomb WAS dropped but it fell in the water. The filler also opened machine-gun fire on the vessel but none of the "shots found their mark.

The Chinese warship replied with anti-aircraft guns and drove away the plane. Central News,

JAPANESE WARSHIPS SHELL

BOCCA TIGRIS FORTS Canton, Sept. 27: Japanese war- ships this morning again subjected the Bocca Tigris Forts to heavy shelling but were unable to do any damage.

Three Japanese planes circled over the forts and opered machine- gun fire on the Chinese positions.

A number of bombs were re- leased at Paksha, near the forts. The extent of the damage is un- known.

RAILWAY TERMINUS

BOMBED

Canton, Sept. 27. The city is being air raided, it is feared again severely, judging by the drone of a seemingly large number of planes and booming of the anti-aircraft guns.

JAPANESE BOMB VILLAGES IN KIANGSI Nanchang, Sept. 27: Many vil lages in Kweicht and Shangyao districts in eastern Klangsi were. badly damaged as a result of an attack by a fleet of six Japanese bombers at 10 o'clock yesterday. It was announced to-day.

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Jerusalem. Sept. 27. Up to the present there have been 108 ar- rests, including many Arab not- ables, in connection with the as- sassination of Mr. Lewis Andrews, the British District Commissioner at Nazareth..

There is considerable apprehen- sion among the Arabs in Nazareth in regard to measures the Govern- ment are taking and more arrests are expected. There is intense police activity and the majority ol the shops are closed.

A detachment of British troops arrived in Nazareth. Meanwhile police dogs have lost the trail of the murderers at the Moslem Cemetery which is close to the scene of the crimes. At the time of the shooting Mr. Andrews..was Dis- accompanied by Assistant trict Commissioner of Halfa, Gor- don, and Constable McEwan, The constable was injured but the as- sallants. believed to be two Arabs, missed Gordon.. Renter.

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Although investigations are still A strong sense of responsibility Incomplete, it is stated that six and much enthusiasm was displayed bombs fell in Kwelchi district by the members of the Hong Kong Three mis-Students' Relief Association Com- killing three farmers.

London, Sept. 27. siles exploded. in Shangyao, in-mittee when they met at the Hong

Mr. T. O. M. Sopwith's Yacht furing a number of farmers and Kong University Union Assembly

Hall yesterday to discuss possible Endeavour I has been found ac- civilians.

The exact extent of the damage steps to collect subscriptions and cording to a radio message re- unknown. The planes disap-funds towards the Red Cress workceived in London from the captain peared towards the southeast.- Central Newne

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A message received later stated that at 10.15 a.m., while the full damage of the morning raid was not yet ascertainable, one Japanese plane swooped low three times over, the Wangsha Rallway Station, the terminus of the Hankow-Canton Railway and dropped three bombs. all of which evidently found their mark on the Station which is only a few hundred yards from Sha- meen: It is blazing fiercely, with billows of black smoke ascending and it is feared the casualties may be considerable as the Station is usually crowded but it is hoped the week-end warning had its effect and the crowd there was sparse at the time of the bombing. Reuter.planes on Sept. 25.

DARE-DEVIL FLYING Canton (10.25 a.m.): Japanese bombers with their silver wings glistening in the sunlight, have just flown over Shameen at a height of about two thousand feet. evidently returning to their base. It is not known yet what damage they have accomplished in the Chinese sections.

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NANKING RETURNING TO. -.

NORMAL Nanking, Sept. 27: Nanking spent Sunday collecting the dead and clearing the debris which were left in the wake of the most intensive bombing by Japanese

Rescue workers

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Three squads are also working overtime

while rapidly re-opening the offices of the bombed institutions in other places..

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Meanwhile, the feeling against Japan is continuting to grow and it is evident everywhere that the Chinese who have experienced the The lone plane which bombed Japanese air raids, are fully deter- the rall station gave a daring ex-

mined to stand their ground and Hibition, flying and swooping with-resist the Japanese to the end. in a couple hundred feet on three occasions, despite the anti-aircraft Adequate preparations were

and machine-guns, dropping 3 taken by the Chinese who return-single bomb each time and then ed the fre and drove away the

roaring up into the clouds.- ressela.-

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Central News

SECOND AIR RAID OVER BOCCA TIGRIS FORTS Canton, Sept. 27: Six more Japanese planes appeared over Bocca Tigris Forta at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon and dropped more than 10 bombs which fell mostly an Paksha, a small village nearby. Anti-aircraft guns from the forts opened fire, damaging one of "the planes which fled towards the coast.- Central News.

A number of bodies have been picked up on Chungshan Road. San Tiao Halang. Ta Shin Chieh, Hu Chia Hslang and Pai Tse Ting. Further investigations also re- vealed that bombs fell in the fol- lowing streets: San YI Ho, Chih JUST MISSED, BOMBING Canton (10.36 a.m.): Three fires Ho Street, Kwan Yin Ssu, ou Tiao Esiang. Erh Tao Halang. Yen are raging in the vicinity of the Wongsha Railway Station. Mean-Chih Hsiang. Tsai Chu Hsiang. Ta Sha Miao Helang. Ho Ha 13 and while ambulances are clanging Wo Mei Road. Fortunately most of the residents on these streets had sought refuge in the dug-outs

along the Shakee Bund and the edge of Shameen to collect the dead and wounded. A large party of thirty Americans, evacuating the Yangtsze districts, and arriving at Wangsha Station late last night fortunately missed the bombing by only a few hours.- Keuter.

WONGSHA RAILWAY STATION BOMBED

Machine Gun Bullets Picked Up In Shameen

CANTON, SEPTEMBER 27. SEMI-OFFICIAL SOURCES STATE THAT THIS MORNING'S

EIGHTY. INCLUDING CASUALTIES TOTALLED

DEAD AND WOUNDED, MOST OF WHOM WERE KILLED IN TENEMENT BUILDINGS IN THE VICINITY OF THE RAILWAY STATION AND ONLY SIX IN THE STATION ITSELF. MEANWHILE A NUMBER OF SPENT MACHINE GUN BULLETS WERE PICKED UP IN SHA- MEEN WHICH IS NOTEWORTHY IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THIS HAS OCCURRED.

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REUTER'S CORRESPONDENT IS FINDING IT VERY DIFFICULT TO GET TO THE SCENE OF TO-DAY'S BOMBING AND PERSON- ALLY INSPECT THE DAMAGE, AS APART FROM THE DIFFICULTY. OF INGRESS AND EGRESS; THE SHAMEEN AND CHINESE POLICE AND SOLDIERS ARE STRICTLY CORDONING THE VICINITY

OF THE BOMBING. IN ADDITION THE TEMPER 'OF THE CROWDS IS MOST UNCERTAIN AND ALMOST ANY FOREIGNER 18: LIKELY TO BE LABELLED A “JAPANESE SPT" AND ATTACK- ED OR ARRESTED. IT SEEMS ONE OF THE BOMBS FELL ON THE RAILWAY WORKSHOPE AND IT IS BELIEVED ́A NUMBER OF RAIL WORKERS WERE BLOWN UP WHILE HUGE CLOUNS OF BLACK SMOKE WERE CAUSED BY THE OIL IN THE WORK- SHOPS. MEANWHILE AT 2.30 PM. ANOTHER ALARM HAS BEEN EXPECTANTLY FOR SOUNDED AND THE CITY 18 AWAITING ANOTHER RAID.REUTER.

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in North China.

The committee was formed about a week ago when representatives of over 20 middle schools in the Colony met together.

of the British tanker Cheyenne.

Lloyds at Valentia have wireless- ed that they received a message from the British steamer Cheyenne timed 11.12 .a.m. stating that Endeavour I was found. 280 miles south west" of Fastnet.—

It was felt that the number of schools which were notified of the existence of the Association was Reuter. small, and it was decided that urgent appeals be made to the au-message from London states that A "Reuter Bulletin Service"

thorities of as many schools as

it is reported that the Endeavour assistance

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a Newcastle sighted by possible to seek their and support...

tanker the skipper of which wire- Mr. Lee Ching-yu, of the Un-lessed the the owners to this effect. versity, who was appointed chair- It is understood that Lloyd's agent man of the Association, read a let-

confirmed the safety of the yacht ter at yesterday's meeting.

but was unable to state whether The letter was sent by Mr. Maall aboard are safe. Sze-chung, the well-known Chin- esc musician, expressing his ad- .miration 01 the Association's

enthusiasm and offering his help in

their cause. The committee has decided to send a reply expressing their appreciation and to notify Mr. Ma of the date on which a concert will be held.

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JAPANESE AIR RAIDS

CONTINUE ON ALL FRONTS

Canton Damage Not Yet Ascertained

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The Japanese again devoted the greater part of their activi- ties to air raids on all fronts yesterday, their operations extend- ing from Nanking in North China to Canton in the south.

Despite the fact that their barbaric attack on Canton and Nanking, when thousands of Innocent non-combatants were kill- ed, had shocked the whole civilised world, the mad-dogs from the Nipponese Empire, true to their threat, bombed the Canton- COD- Hankow Kallway when their fiendish acts resulted in ..siderable loss of life and damage to property in the Wongsba...

section of Canton.

the number of killed and wounded must be at least 100.

205 BODIES RECOVERED FROM RUINS IN CANTON Canton, Sept. 27: Two hundred

Londen, Sept. 27, and six bodies, many which are

The 'hrst of the regular Cabinet without limbs and heads, have Council meetings since Parliament been recovered from the ruins in rose at the end July will be held Canton, according to an official

on Wednesday. In addition to in- report released last night.

ternational affairs that await fur- ther examination there is a heavy As was the case in the previous agenda of domestic matters for air raid, on the Tungshan quarter. consideration in view of the ap- the Japanese airmen paid several So far as the North was concern- It is also officially reported that proach of the new session.. of visits to Canton yesterday but if ed Nanking was raided three times 70 persons who were wounded by Parliament which will be opened ❘ their intention was to shatter the by the Japanese air force. The MISSIONARY INSTITUTION BOMBED

Japanese bombs on Bept. 24 have with the King's speech from the morale of the people of South populace of the capital have long.

throne in the House of Lords en China, then they failed miserably since learned to go to the dug-outs Nanchang, Sept. 27: A mission-succumbed in local hospitals.

the Meanwhile, the debris on Tung October 25. Practically all women and

and it will perhaps be well for in an orderly manner so that no ary institution for children in Nanchang was

them to realise it, here and now, panic followed the air raid alarmas com- Hus East Road, Tung Chu Lan, Ministers will have returned from pletely demolished on Sept. 24 is! Hua Road, Chen Chia Chi. polical tours in their constituen- that they will never succeed in this and there were three of the when the building was struck by a Chao Tiên Street, Pai Yun Road eles and, from holidays this week.mad desire which is not only doom-in the course of the day. A num-

The Prime Minister, Mr. Chambered to failure, but which will also ber of bombs were dropped but the. bomb dropped trom a Japanese and Kwang Ya Middle School are plane, it was officially reported being rapidly cleared away. Fifty-lain, who spent the week-end at gain for them the lasting contempt damage, though reported to be

six of the bodies were unearthed to-day.

nis country residence, Chequers, of the world-if indeed the world slight, has not yet been assessed.

now has anything, but, contempt Ten Japanese planes flew over Seven civilians in the instity from the ruined buildings in this returned to Downing Street to-

day

for a nation which knows not the Luho in the early morning and tlod were instantly killed while 58 area-

code of international and humani-dropped five bombs. The chemical others were injured, some seriously,entral News.

tarian laws.

A further investigation into the bombing of Nanchang last week also disclosed that 85 houses were destroyed, causing hundreds of men, women and children to be homeless.--

Central New8.

FOREIGNERS PROTEST

Foreigners Shanghai, Sept. 27: who were allowed until 5 p.m. to- day to remove cargoes from go- downs northward ot Boochow Creek were told at 4 p.m.. that their time limit was over. They protested that they still had an hour left when they were remind- ed that Tokyo time was being en- forced in Japanese occupied areas.

-Beuter

EMBASSY DENIALS

Madrid, Sept. 27. Denials have been issued by the Argentine and Chile Embassies that any of their employees have been arrested and implicated in the re- cent plot to form an Insurgent column in Madrid,

Renter's Bulletin Service.

British Wireless Service.

EGYPTIAN ROYAL ROMANCE

King" Faronk.

Basi Zulfikar.

King Farouk of Egypt, who has become engaged to the 16-year old Sasi Zalakar, daughter of an Egyptian Judge. The marriage will take place next year.

CANTON DAMAGE

The damage done in Canton yesterday has not yet been ascer- tained, due to the fact that the police are not allowing unauthoris-

works, ironworks and foundry were extensively damaged. Those are the leading works of their. kind in the country and the damaging of the chemical worka will have very far-reaching results as for some years now they have been manufacturing a chemical

ed persons near the area that was fertiliser for China's millions of bombed, but it is understood that farmers.

CHINESE BUILDING NEW LINES

"SOUTH OF TSANGCHOW

Tainan, Sept. 27: The Chinese "| move

out of the "danger zone."

forces which withdrew from Tsang-Yesterday 3,000 refugees arrived here in a special train. Many left without any extra clothing, food or personal belongings and are in a very pitiful state.

chow on September 25 are now establishing new lines a few miles south and preparing to shortly launch a counter-offensive to re- capture the town

Following the occupation of Tsangchow by Japanese, thousands of Chinese civilians have started to:

A number of Japanese planér yesterday raided Anling Station, Hsuangyuan Station and west of the Grand Canal--- Central News.

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