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TUESDAY, MAY 31 HONG KONG, 1938. ZAD "BE#AEYETEATE

DEATH FROM CANTON BOMBING HORRORS INFLAME WORLD

THE AIR

HUNDREDS of innocent civilians, including women and children. were slaughtered by Japanese bombs dropped on Canton during the mass air raids of the week-end. Many buildings were destroyed and many others were badly damaged, among them belag the Kwangtung "Construction Administration Building; shown above.

NEW MASS EXECUTIONS OF SOVIET OFFICIALS

Moscow, May 30.

New mass executions are reported from the Ukrainian, capital of Kiev. According to reliable information, as many as 217 death- sentences on Soviet officials have been carried out during the last few days.

Some details of the backgrounds of these new condemnations were revealed by the Secretary of the Communist Party organisation of Klev. M. Krjukov at a party conference.

He indicated that the executions were connected with the dis- covery of three allegedly counter-revolutionary organisations in which Sevlet offcials at Kiev were involved.-(Transocean).

GUIDE TO THE NEWS

es-

Page 2.-Boldier's appeal dismiss-

ed. Early morning car capade. Huge haul of opium. Page 3 Szechuen industrial pro-!

Japanese poor in urlth- gress.

metic. Police Reserve Orders. Pure 4-News about the Services.

NEW RAILWAY

IN CHINA

Connects Nanning With Indo-China

Paris, May 30. A group of French banks headed

Page 5-Cinema notes and news by the Banque Indo-Chinoise has

Crossword.

agreed to provide ɑinancial backing

Paxe Pope prays for peace. for the construction of a railway

Czech election results. Page 7-University, congregation. Plano recital. Refugees rush to Hong Kong

Page 8-Leading article: The true picture. Salt Industry difficul- tles. Shocking US, crime. Page 9-Another Canton air raid. "Page 10.-Sports.

Page 11-Aborigines ready for war

service.

|from French Indo-China to Nan- ning, in Kwangsi Province, as an extension of the existing ilne trom the interior to the Indo-China frontier(Renter).

dispatch from

that messages

A Reuter Paris

states from Tokyo and Shanghai confirm the report of the new railway, which is expected to. be completed in six months.

Appeals For Firm International Action To

To End Indiscriminate Japanese Killing Of

Of Civilians

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London, May 30.

The Japanese bombings of Canton with the killing of hundreds of civitians, is given great pro- minence in all newspapers today.

The League of Nations Union is hiding a conference today on the matter. Political circles ex- pect that the bombings will be brought strongly to the attention of Parliament.

The Manchester Guardian emphasises that the raiders made no effort to find military objectives but dropped the bombs in the crowded living quarters of the city and made their purpose plain 'by machine-gunning the rescuers.

Ghastly And Pathetic Canton Scenes

Canton, May 30. Sights so ghastly that they beg gared description' were witnessed

here this afternoon.

J

There was a time when such outrages would

have awakened General Wu

the world to instant protest but: war, which tends always to bru- talise combatanta, now appears to have dulled onlookers' conscience with its repeated horrora, says the paper.

Japan, who ti fall pride of the

by Reuter's correspondent whorst successes took little notice of made a tour of the bombed areas the protesting world, is no longer Iso self-confident of final victory. A young woman and an old man The receded Japanese armies face were the only survivors at a group ja vast hostile continent with a

t a dozen small, peor huts.

The young woman sat sobbing on a tree trunk, looking down at he little blasted body of her unly hild, whose tiny chest had been

blown away.

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Proposals To Sudetens

UNOFFICIAL PARIS REVELATION

Paris, May 30. Le Matin states today that it is

constant menace from the north.

the

International opinion, 'say paper, if expressed with sufficient resolution, might stay Japan's con- tinued assaults on civilian life. (Reuter

APPEALS. SENT

IN

Canton, May 30.

Urges People To Be Calm

Canton, May 30, Speaking at the weekly memo- rial meeting this morning, Gov- ernor Wu Te-chen declared that it was clearly the objective of the wanton Japanese air raids over the week-end to terrorise the Cantonese people and disturb peace and order in the city.

The entire populace of Canton. General Wu said, instead of being into abject despair, cowered should keep calm and collectively ahoulder the responsibility of de- fending their native city.

Close co-operation zaust be maintained, he advised, between the civilian populace and the various rescue parties in order to A dozen messages of appeal for minimise the number of casualties. protests against the Japanese By refusing to be terrorised and raids an unarmed vilians were by lending their support to the telegraphed today by local medi-authorities. the Cantonese people ¡cal and semi-official organisations will do a great service in adding

to the whole world."

to the national strength against

Several

British missionaries 288Tension, General Wu stated.

(Central Newa); wired to the Archbishop of Canter bury, Dr. Cormo Lang, appealing to him to bring to the attention of

in the position to publish the pro-the public the bombing of civilians | posals made by the Czechoslovak lan Government to the Budeten German Party and which, accord- ing to the paper, are four in cum: ber.

and to do what he can to secure the British Government to protest against such inhuman barbarity.

The American Residents' Asso-

Arab Plan For Palestine

The paper asserts that the pro- clation tas similarly wired to Mr REJECTED BY ROYAL

posals are as follows:

(1) Use of the German lan- guage in the administration and courts of law in the. Ger- man speaking districts.

(2) Control by the Sudeten German Party of credits grant- ed to the educational tablishments in those districts. (3) The holding of new par- Hamentary elections in districts where the municipal elections. result in a majority for the Sudeten German Party,

(4) Revision of the propor- tional number of Sudeten Ger- man officials entitled to em- ployment by the State. - (Transocean).

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Cordell Hull while appeals were also sent privately to members of the House of Representatives.

COMMISSION

London, May 30. Some of the main points of the

plan fox

the Arab

sciving

In

A typical one, "Terrible suffering is caused by the Indiscriminate bombings. For God's sake, can you Palestine partition question were

disclosed

the Arab help?" has been sent to Repre.. today

newspaper, Falastin. sentative R. G. Allen.

The plan, which was recently The Medical Associations of Bri submitted to the British, Palestine tain, Canada and America have Commission, proposes the creation been cabled to by the Cantor As- of a "United States of Palestine sociation as follows: "The Japan and Trans-Jordan," in which

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TWISTED AND TORN

MAIN OBJECT of attack by the Japanese air raiders, who'merci- lessly bombed Canten during the week-end, was the Wong. Sha railway station Some conception of the terrific damage wrought can be gained from this picture of uns, of the platforms showing the twisted pillars and the bare frames which once supported the roof.

STEPS TAKEN TO GUARD AGAINST CHOLERA HERE

GOVERNMENT IMPOSES BAN

ON ICE CREAM, CUT FRUIT

AND OTHER COMMODITIES

Quarantine restrictions have been imposed ́ ́against`` arrivals from Swatow on account of cholera..

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A Government Gazette Extraordinary issued late yesterday gives notice of the following emergency regulations which have been promulgated by His Excellency the Governor In Council for the prevention of the disease in the Colony:-

THE DOLLAR

T.T. ON NEW YORK: 303. T.T. ON LONDON: 1. 2.13/18a Loudon Silver Market (Our Own Correspondent). Landon, May 30, London silver prices today. were unchanged as follows:

May 28. May 30

.18-7/8 Spot............ 18-7/8 Forward.....18-9/16 18-9/16

Arabs and British members.

This

No hawker shall sell or expose for sale or offer for sale any fresh fruit unless the same is whole. that is to say, uncut and unpeel- ed

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No. hawker" shall sell or expose for sale or offer for sale ice cream, or any frozen or chiled prepara- tion commonly known "ice cream" 'unless he holds a permit

in writing in that behalf signed by the Chairman of the Urban Coun- cil and by a Health Officer issued to him after the date of this re- gulation

No hawker shall sell or expose

cae Air Force is repeatedly and Jews shall be granted autonomous scheme should be tried out for for sale or offer for sale any non- "

severely bombing Canton city. The rights within those territories in period of ten years. hospitals are full of wounded non-which they are already living. The newspaper says that the aerated drinks in the preparation. or herbs combatants. Many are dead. WeIt is suggested that the terri- plan has been rejected by the of which fruit juice urge strenuous protests from the tories to be placed under Jewish Commission on the grounds that (other than tea) are used, unless American and British Govern control should be regulated by a it lies beyond the scope of a pos- he holds a permit in writing in

Jews, Įsible solution—(Transocean). commission composed of ments."(Reuter).

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EXCLUSIVE PICTURES OF CANTON AIR RAIDS

TAKEN BY THE DAILY. PRESS pictographer in Canton, these exclusive pictures show all too vividly the damage wrought by the Japanese raiders during their tacks. on the Kwangtung capital "end.

during

the

The pictures (from left) show: Gallant rescue workers, who

tolled incessantly, regardica of danger, to extricate victims of the raiders from under tangled, masses of bricks and beams. Three women, including one European, can be seen here helping in the work of mercy.

A party of youthful first-aid workers, undaunted by the scenes of carnage which met their eyes, waiting to nudist the wonzided.

Grim reminder of the terror that dropped from the skies, this gaping crater marked the spat

where a bomb exploded outside the Kwong Sa: Middle School. One missie tore the entire corner off the school, leaving floors hanging in mid-air".

- Amisted by Boy Scouts, a number of whom lost their Ives, Bad Cross workers delved amid ruins for dead and injured. The «Japanese" raiders did not respect the Red Cross Bag