To the Editor of the "Nortu-Cumva Dairy News"
Su,—Again Japan has broken her promises, On at least three occasions in)the past three weeks her. spokesmen have declared that her aeroplanes would not carry bombs when flying over the International Settlement or the French Concession.
On Saturday the 4th inst. shortly after 12.15 pin. I was in Bubbling Well Road in front of Messrs. Dombey & Son when I heard an aeroplane going into a power dive and on looking up saw a Japanese plane coming from a southerly direction and crossing over. Bubbling Well Road approximately on the line' of Yates Road in a full power dive. She then at an. altitude of about 3.5 feet. and when she had descended-to about 1,500 feet and was then to the north, of what I estimated would be Wuting Road, I distinctly saw t bombs released. Practically simultane ously with such release there puff of white smoke on the starboard side of her engine housing and ini-mediately the whole plane was enveloped in flames and the result. well, known to Shanghai. Whilst watching the burning plane descend, heard another plane entering into a power dive and looking southward over the premises of Messrs, Dombey and Son, I saw second plane in such a dive proceeding in a northerly direction and slightly to the we: of the one that had just gone on fi When this second plane was over what I took to be a point to the north of Wuting Road she released two bombs, which anyone who was observing closely could not have failed Yo have seen and a few seconds later the re port of their explosion was distinctly audible, just as the explosion of the two bombs of the former plane wore audible, although most onlookers thought that noise was from the crash of that plane.
'Adopt! Their Hongkong Hosts, "Attempts are being made to segregate the various classes, the higher class type going to one camp and the middle class or lower to the other; it uld be invidious. to say which' is which, Tt works out fairly well on the "hole although there are mistakes. of course."
"Dear! Dear! Dear! "as the Serg. Major chattily remarked to the} private who dropped his rifle on typically Britis ish! Segregate Ofcourse! Quaite! It is not to be expected for a moment that the linin—as you were! the shining lights of our local Snobocraey, many of whom never enjoyed the ministrations of a domestic servant, or knew what a dress suit was when they set out from the Homeland, should mix on terms of equality—Refugee equality, that with the common herd; or that scions of the! latter, many of them better born and bred, should get between the wind and their pinchbeck nobility.
No wonder that for eigners th heir respective heads, murmur .oco Inglesa" and git under the peculiar Br ive up trying irish temperament when such phoolerie are the th instances of dam-rule rather than "Segregate?" One the scene, "Shan'
'Vacuees'
Shun! Hies front!
Fust class, stan' fas forward. until y betters."
Sec'nd an' turds wun pace Marreh keep gain' are well el lear o' your Yours, with a pa in-in-the-neck Shanghai, Sept,
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