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RIDDLE OF CANTON FINAL HOURS OF DEATH OF A CITY

Communications with Canton became reduced to wireless connection and the congestion of traffic was so heavy that much news did not get through.

Below, correspondents tell in delayed messages of what they naw on Friday and Saturday.

Canton, Oct. 21. In the course of a bizarre twelve-¦ hour night taxi tour of the front with two free-lance cameramen, Messrs. A. Tyler Hull, of Buckrow Bench, Vir- ginin, and Roy G. Scott, of St. Louis, Mo., I found myself leading the

run. They propped up our on-tank guns with the ald of impromptu bamboo tripods and fought back savagely.

MONDAY,

niso

help protect the Eingnan University and Hackett Hospital. It 19 sending a warning to Pak lick Tung rezidenta to move to Shameen. Blind girls from Pak Kok Tung will shortly be brought by boat near to Shameen.

All Bircels Dead

Lator.

A United Press correspondent who toured the city at 4 pm, saw tank tracks on the Bund. He also saw the American Bag at the Y.M.C.A. gate with two bullet holes through It.

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The Public are kindly requested lo pointed Resident-General at Tunis He will be succeeded by M. Jules post carly. and

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chlef 'private' secretary to M. Bonnet.

Mr. Wallace Forgie, a native of Toromo, who is in charge of the Y.M.C.A. sald, "I saw twenty tanks pass with. Japanese flags."

Planes are dying low overhead. Chinese soldiers with arms Chinese sta Cors s1 senttered through the city seem unworried.

occasional Atraggler is seen. Those evacuating are also calmn.

En route to the Canton Hospital,

wa man with a wounded leg who says a United Press correspondent, 1 asked witere the hospital was. I directed him towards

Hackett the Memorial Hospital, since the Canton Hospital had "closed

MERA. AKROYD HUNT wishes to Chinese advance, which just missed)ustered out of the original 500. The streets uppear to be dead, though

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In the course of a six-hour ordeal up to noon, 275 men only could be

thrust The Japanese mechanised encountering J flying column of may break through, but their infantry

Y Japanese tanks thirty miles from will have the hardest time follow- Canton along the Canton-Taengshing ing. Our men's morale is high. We highway, says a United Press corres- have only one with-to get at some- pondent.

thing we can fight."-United Press.

Shameen Defence

Canton, Oct. 21. Canton is dying to-day. Early this morning I went by boat to Lingnan. It was filled with refugees but still they did not show any sign of a panic.

Asked how he had been wounded, the man said a large number of Japanese tanks came down Tai Ping nuo, and turned eastward along the Bund

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Proceeding towards the front, 1 TWO FEMALE clerks required for temporary work in H.M. Dockyard, found large scale Chinese troop move- ments in both directions executed British born parentage essential. with parade-ground precision. I also Salary $150 per month. Apply found the ill enclosed roads leading writing to Naval Secretary, 11.M. out of Canton only very slightly Dockyard.

damaged, but saw no wounded.

Thirty miles east of Cunton. I en

The gateman at the Canton Hospital countered

column of Chinese

Just after reaching Lingnan, several confirmed the story and said there Vickers whippet turks accompanied

tanke. Another eye- of the were sixteen explosions were heard cast by n motor cycle and [ gorgeous

Ares, witness said he counted eighteen. hearse with baby blue and gilt fittings city, which was followed by

At present the streets are quiet. and ginss-phuels. This was serving the sounds like shots providing the

Most of the people now remaining as a staff car, in which were very blowing up of munition dumps.

Shameen has completed the erect-believe themselves trapped. much alive but slightly embarassed

of defences,

including steel-example, one man stopped me and offleers, whe proposed we followed Ing

plates guarding the bridges. The asked me whether I was afraid. Later, both the hearse and our French are digging trenches on the asked him why he had not gone, and selves overtook the unit, and sudden-castern tip of the Island, while the he replied that he had been unable British are removing the matched to find a boat or a ricksha. I told ly met running men saying that

the him to cross the river to Honam ralding party of Japanese tanks had covering the bridge to reduce

Inland in the south, but he apathe- appeared a mile lend, and had fire hazard.

foreigners to tically replied it was no use since The last group of which machine-gunned some buses overtook us half-on-hour before. evacuate left this morning for Shickki he would probably die anyway.

Planes continue to circle the city, The hearse turned a dignified tall on board the American Consulate

Inunch with a naval guard. The dropping enticing leafiels. und we followed.

group included about fifteen Ameri- cans as well as Ofteen other eigners

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Movements of Chinese mechanized units and heavy artillery later in the sight suggested a retirement before trial of strength, probably due to

successful the

Japanese Banking north-cast operations

of Poklo. During our tour, we found Chinese Iroops who had obviously not been damaged in the slightest.

the Our party's guide on

night girl-soldier tour was a pint-sized named Mabel Yang, formerly a desk clerk at the popular New Asia Ilotel.; who won the hearts of the gruffest front-line officers and secured for us a welcome everywhere.

Chinese Unit Decimated

Later, The unit which we left at 4 a.m. decimated by wayluid and WOR Japanese acroplanes and tanks in the course of a desperate six-hour battle, men against machines, which began at 3 a.m.

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Later,

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Chinese reports say that a certain for-General is responsible for this big- gest debacle in Chinese military his- tory. It is said that he was paid The blowing up of bulldings by 2,000,000 yuan by the Japanese to the Chinese is continuing, the latest carry out a motk defence, and is ware- slated to hold the chief military post being the O.S.K. Japanese houses, the Brewery, the Paper Fac- in the puppet government. tory, and the Colton Mill, while it Power-house also learned that the generators have been set afre with and the Water gasoline,

plant hina During the past few days, Canton also been blown up. The evacuation has witnessed probably the most com has since slowed up. There are fewplete evacuation of any city in the pedestrians about, though many are world's history. seen sitting patiently by the street- skie.

The Tanks Appear ·

At 3.10 pm. Dr. Cadbury and Dr. Thom on telephoned the United

Complete Evacuation

Later.

Twenty Jopartese tanks later passed through the deserted city's main business street and disappeared, leav- ing no trace of their passing except bullet spattered walls, and the rid- died bodies of four civilians, one a

Squadrons of Japanese planes cir and pretty girl, one a soldier.

States Consulate that Japanese Lanka had passed the Canton Hospital on the Bund near the Of Kwan Hotel a cled low over the city throughout the day. At the end of the day, Canton few minutes ago.

Despite the dynamiting it had re-remains a riddle. celved, the Pearl River bridge is still - Japanese planes and tanks dominate standing and seems fairly safe.

It is notable that all the the Japanese have tried for things to destroy, including the Power and Water plants, and the Cement, Cotton and Paper mills, were destroyed few hours ago this morning by the Chinese blowing them up.

the roads into the city but are re- maining

sides of the bottle- mck of the Conlon Walchow Rond.

This morning 1 mct Ghaggard young California born battalion com- mander who said: "When you said didn't met Japanese tanks I

While troops went forward. I saw quite bellove it, because I was order ed to take up guard

at a second

heavy equipment cent back and Hine place where you had been. We

aevacuated promptly and efficiently. never got to our position. Just after

Despite the passage of the Japanese tanks, I saw small groups of Chinese you left I received an order to operate Independently, signifying a Japanese

A few minutes ago, Japanese planes officers and men in the streets. break-through. An hour afterwards circling low over the city dropped The Couton-Hankow Railway sent

After leaflets, one of which fell on Japanese planes spotted us.

the out a train to-night, while is ad- were abluze some men were killed their infuriated USS. Mindanao, saying how friend-ministration buildings comrades opened fro. Then the ly the Japanese troops had always and ignited the shops next door. Japanese determined to destroy us. been to the citizens in the occupied United Press.

"Six tanly came down the rond. arens, and how they had always help-

Awaliing the Japanese We smashed three with our four noted the furmers, the old and young tank guns, which killed seven of the and the helpless. It denounced

Canton, Oct. 22. Japanese planes in Chiang Kai-shek bitterly.

Canton was very quiet, this morn- The U.S.S. Mindanao is this after ing. Thousands were patiently and groups began ceuselessly to hurry us

Our men refused to i noon sending details of suilors across country.

to apatholleally waiting for the Japanese.

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M. Paul Negglar, Ambassador to Chinn, is being transferred to Moscow, where he takes the place of M. Coulondre, who has been appointed Ambassador to Berlin.

It is understood that M. George Bonnet also recommended the ap- pointment of M. Massigli, Director of Political Affairs at the Qual d'Orsay, to be Ambassador to Turkey.

In some quarters these changes aro regarded as a sign of France's new altitude towards the totalitarian States since the Munich ogreement. -Reuter.

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who, however, seem yet to be some distance away.

Arc Sporadic machine-gun heard from White Cloud Mountain, north-east of the elly, indicating that the Japanese were stil some miles from the city.

A tour of the city found Won sha deserted with sono railing Station stockt, tanks and anti-aircraft equip- ment destroyed by last night's fire. The caretaker there said that the train scheduled to leave last night did not go until this morning.

Fire raged in the city centre where the Military Headquarters had been blown up, and for a time threatened the Y.M.C.A. It has now died out. Ocensional Japanese planes circle the city dropping leaflets addressed

to General Wu Teh-chen, General Yu Han-mou. and Mayor Teung Yong-lu, very politely announcing the Japanese are surrounding the city, and requesting their surrender, other- wise the Japanese would unfortunate- ly be forced to destroy the place,

Only a few soldiers are seen in the streels, these stragglers chonging their clothes when able. They are all unarmed.

Later,

A United Press correspondent and an American cameramnu, Rey G. Scott, from St. Louis, Mo., made a tour of the city at 1.20 p.m. to-day. Going up Tal Fing Lo, a Japanese plane circled a few hundred reet overhead, but flew away, evidently seeing the American flag.

At the corner of Wing Hon Lo and Wai Oi Lo, Japanese soldiers were seen walking, currying bunches of bananas. They appeared to be nervous. Further away, threa Japan- ese soldiers were seen riding bicycles. "A mile Inter at Tung-han, we were stopped at

at the Intersection where machine-gunned Chinese trucks with Chinese soldiers had been stopped. A company of Japanese soldiers were We seen crossing the bill ahead. waved our flag us they pointed their bayonets, They were joined by an- other company coming in by other on trucks they hnd mandeered preparatory to entering the city.

roads

com.

"A colonel, sald to be a commander of an entering regiment numbering over 1,000, maid they spent last night in Shaho, Ave miles east, and asked if many Chinese civilians were seen. They were apparently disappointed"to. And very few.

"Several Chinese elvillans accom- panying apparently unarmed soldiers and been looking for food, carrying bunches

of Dananas, some chickens and leading cows.

"The Japanese soldiers were tired but cheerful, and some of the old soldiers borrowed cigarettes from us, "An interpreter who spoke French that General Matsul was not commanding the troops, was not in South China, and was not

coming,

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but said there were thousands of Japanese troops a couple of miles behind the column. He said the Japanese would receive the Press to discuss the campaign two or three days hence."

A message at 4.10 p.m. sinies that a motor car carrying high Japanese officers stopped at the British bridge. An English Interpreter formerly em- ployed by the Mitsui Busan Keisha on Shameen stepped out and yelled across the creek, "Do you remember me?"

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