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CANTON

LARGE SECTIONS OF CANTON

CANTON ARE NOW WRECKAGE IN DESERTED

ALMOST

Shameen Only Oasis

Of Safety In A

Desert Of Desolation

REFUGEES PACK STEAMERS, TRAINS

BOUND FOR HONG KONG

Canton, June &

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KED CROSS WORKERS AND DOCTORS compate that today's air raid casualties are over cigbi hundred though it is believed to be probably more owing to many bodies not being recovered. majority of the deaths occurred in the east end of the city which hitherto was considered to be comparatively safe. „

Large sections of Canton are now almost completely deserted and the crowds are tending more and more to move nearer to the Sha- meen area which is the only oasis of safety in a desert of desolation.

Houses demolished in lam Yuen Lane after Japanese raiders had carried out a wanton attack

on Sunday morning, in the vicinity of Hun Yam Mountain, Canton.

ARCH SPY BELIEVED IN CANTON

Steamers bound for Hong Kong| A large number of peuple were were two and a half hours late in killed in the public market in the (From Our Own Correspondent) leaving owing to the tremendous icinity of the Bund while numer- pressure of refugees while trains ous side streets added to the toll were similarly packed.

of dead and wounded.

It is learned that the French- owned Paul Doumer Hospital, which received a direct hit during the morning's bombing, was plain- is marked by a red cross on the roof and also with a French flag. Chinese red cross units were like wise plainly marked:

Some districts are like a cemetery and cnly the poorest and aged and

children remain.

The crowds place pathetic trust the larger buildings which are really death traps should they re- cetve

direct hit. Thousands

The Pearl River Bridge, which packed the Great Eastern Hotel was the target of the raiders, is and Oikwan Hotel whose only vir- over six hundred yards distant tue is, that they are situated near from the hospitals.

Shameen (Reuter);

American Doctors' Appeal

Canton, June 6:

Indignation and horror is volced in numerous telegraphic "ap- peals to the whole world against Japanese bombing of Canton.

Local American physicians in a broadcast statement tonight to the American people appeal for aid to halt Japanese bombings.

The following statement was issued to the local press: American physicians in Canton witness the brutal massacre by Jap- anese bombing of Chinese civilians, thousands of whom we treat with our own hands and appeal to Americans to apply measures to halt these daily massacres."

"We

The foregoing was signed by six leading American doctors who have worked feverishly, day and night for the past nine days since the bombing of the city commenced.

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DEATH AND DESTRUCTION.

The topmost picture shows the havoc wrought by Japanese- Blanes after they had ruthlessly bombed Hon - Man Road Bonth, Tai Ping Sha, on Sunday morning. · Casualties totalled 36 dead and

·wounded. · Picture below shows Chinese Boy. Bocuts, engaged, in [RESENS, Work,

Canton, June 8.

AMBULANCE RIDDLED BY

[MT. MAYON

REPORTED

MACHINE-GUN IN ERUPTION

Canton, June 6. Foreign correspondents inspected the remains of a Red Cross am- It is believed that a muster 593

bulance with the marks of "ma. is lurking here to keep the Japanese naval air force inform-chine-gun bullets clearly visible. ed concerning when and where to carry out the daily air raids on Canton and other cities

Kwangtung province..

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It is understood that the com-

Manila, June 6.

Precautions are being rushed to: evacuate inhabitants of four towns lying at the foot of Mount Mayon, 8,274 feet high volcano in the Province of Albay in Luzon Island.

In Event Of Hankow Being Threatened By Japanese

EVACUATION OF CIVILIANS FROM WUHAN CITY ÁREA

Hankow, Jane 7.

Foreign consular authorities are arranging for three concentra- tion camps where foreign residents of Hankow will live in the event of the elty being threatened. The camps are being prepared at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank building, the A.P.C. building and the German Club.

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Kitchens are being set up in the buildings and food, which have already arrived from Hong Kong. are being stored in godowns. Foreign residents desiring to stay in the concentration camps are asked to register and each is to pay $30 for food ex- Denses.

At the same time, as the result evacuate as many Chinese civi- of a conference of military and Hans as possible. Government bodies here! the Chi- Chinese press reports state that nese authorities have decided to families of Government officials have already been instructed to evacuate, the Wuhan area while the headquarters of the Wuhan

The volcano, which is noted for CHINA AIR ARM Garrison has ordered that women,

Its perfect cone, is reported to be

in eruption. emitting dense clouds

in plement of the ambulance were all of smoke, fire and huge boulders.

Ал extensive net has heen thrown by Chinese secret service agents in an attempt to trace the

killed.

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URGED TO

children, war refugees and wound- ed officers and soldiers are evacuate the area Arst.

to

The town of Legaspl, which has TAKE REPRISALSAll schools and colleges must been" endangered by the eruption.

Legaspi is 200 miles south-east of said to be practically deserted.

Manila

In an official announcement it is stated that eight bombs were drop- arch spy.

ped on the Sun Yat-sen University, The work of this informant is three falling Inside the campus

Refugee camps are being estab- surprisingly accurate. His ser and demolishing all the school lished for the homeless, and the vices are particularly useful in a buildings.

authorities are taking precautions night rald, as he tells the Japan-

abandoned It is added that the Pelching against looting of ese navy whether there is moon-

hontes light over Canton and whether Middle School in Tungshan was

Mount Mayon has been tre a target of the Japanesequently in eruption, but today's any Chinese Oghting planes are also at the aerodromes.

raiders and there were many outbreak is reported to be the "Hundreds of sples and taltors student casualties.-(Reuter).

worst for many years.--(Reuter). have been caught and executed since the Sino-Japanese host-' ties started, but the master mind is still at large. He may com. municate to the Japaneşe war- ships by wireless от may tele- phone his message to Hong Kong to be relayed to the seaplane carriers.

7000 KILLED AND WOUNDED IN CANTON

TEN DAYS' TERRIBLE TOLL

General Wu Te-chen's

Call To Arms

Stirring Call

Canton, June 6.

the A stirring call for

entire people of Kwangtung to arms to avenge the bloody account of Japanese air carnage was made by General Wu, Te-chen, Governor of Kwangtung, in

interview

with the Central News today.

Never have the savagery and callousness of the enemy, declared General Wu, been more glaringly shown to a horrified world than the continuous dally bombing" of Canton, now entering its tenth consecutive day of horror and

Canton, June 6. Official sources tonight put the total number of civilians kil ed and wounded during today's destruction. To exact retribution bombing at 2,000.

from the Japanese, there is no This brings the total casuality other way out to arm and fight in

list to 17,000 since May 28.

blood.

It is feared that the number

when

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will be greatly increased

the total A rough estimate of

General the city's debris is finally cleared casualties, according to

of dead away. as it is believed that many Wu, placed the number

the appalling bodies are still buried underneath and wounded at the ruins.

mark of 5,000 since May 28.

A feet of 50 planes took part The object of these Japanese in today's mass attack, scattering raids, General Wu stated. WIL bombs over the heart of the city purely terroristic.

and wrecking more than 700 It is impossible. General Wu houses, shops, schools, hospitals said, to make an estimate of the and other buildings.--(Central total material ass inflcted ly News).

the Japanese air attacks on the city.

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Pako. 4-News about the Services.

London Gazette... Page 15-Cinema notes and

Crossword puzzle. Par 6-Slovaks demand

General Wa".Te-chen

General Wu said he could not state how much he was moved to pity and compassion for hia people for the terrible ordeal they have been experiencing.

The Japanese 'will find to their diamay, the Kwangtung Governor believed, that instead of the Chinese people being cowered to panic and terror. the bombing

BRITISH SOLDIER have the unsavoury effect of

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KILLED ON

N.W. FRONTIER

New Delhi, Jude 6. Further trouble, is reported on the North West frontier, where it auto-is understood Faquir Ipl is stirring

up the tribesmen agzin."

nomy. Extension of Soviet in fluence denied.

Page %-How Britain will guard " trade routes. US baseball re-

sults.

In an engagement on Friday Last, a British soldier was killed and another wounded while in

encounter

Indian

Pare B-Leading article: Whither another

humanity? Pretty Cathedral soldier was killed and two wound-

wedding,

Page 10,-Bixth Extra Race meet-

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Pale 13-Radio programmes.

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The reservoir in the district was badly, damaged by the tribesmen

(Reuter Balletin).

strengthening their determination to resist.

During this crucial turn in this nation's history, General Wu said, all people should do their duty in either fighting at the front; or engaging in defence work in the rear. With the exception of wo- men and, children who should. be helped to scatter to places of safety, all able-bodied men should stay behind to continue wartime service and help win for Chine

· hèr supreme struggle.

General Wu believed that every able-bodied · man in Kwangtung will be ashamed of himself if he thought of escapink from duty, to placas of safety (Central News),

within a month for the sum- mer holidays in order to provide the opportunity for students to

Canton Petition To leave earlier than in previous years.

Generalissimo

-- Canton, June 6.

It is understood that the Chi- nese Government decided on the | evacuation; of civilians from the Wuhan" "area" because of recent

The Canton "Anti-Japán Belief Japanese raids Là Canton. Cheng- Beserve League has petitioned to chow, Faying '* and other cities Generalissimo ...· Chiang Kai-shek where many civilians were killed and Mr. T. V. Soong, Chairman of (and wounded from zarisi bombing. the Chinese Aviation Commission (~~(Reuter). thai the Chinese Air Arm should take immediate reprisals" on the wanton Japanese air ralds in Canton and elsewhere, by bombing

JEW CONSTABLE

Japanese military establishments DIES IN ATTACK

and naval bases in Japan."

According to the petition. the

Jerusalem, June 8.

suggested air attack on Japan is A number of attacks were made not mérely for the sake of in Jewish settlements during the vengeance but to enable the week-end Japanese militarists to realise and

One Jewish constable was killed experience the horror of aerial in a settlement near Nazareth.---- | warfare:-(International),

(Reuter Bulletin).

CANDID CAMERA AT THE RACES

Briapshots taken at the Shith Extra Race' meeting which con-

cluded at Happy Valley yesterday.