Canton, Sept. 30.
White no Japanese aeroplanes have visited Canton, a phone call at noon today States that there has been Gnsiderable aerial activity over pod all morning.
Two Japanese planes, believed fiom an aircraft carrier, surveyed find.dropped bombs. The main Pbjeclve, the Naval Academy, is believed not to have been hit but dose demise must have resulted in viciniëy and apparently explains the short alarm sounded this morning. A second alarm was sounded at 3 o'clock this afternoon,—Reuter, Obstintite Door Yields to Mine Explosion The explosion which tocked Shanghai early on Wednesday @8, a Chinese mine went off in the Whahgpoo proved to be the "Open Sesame" for an obstinate - door which had long resisted all chorts io force it open.
As windows in the Central District shook, ata in some in-States crácked, the obstinate door few open at long last. The gasp of épprehehsion which flew from the lips of the owner of a eyes résidéhce in Yuen Ming "nen Road was quickly replaced by a sigh of relief at the bene-Voléht influetice of the explosión.
Ít is Understood that à letter of manks is to bë sent to the Chinese itary authoFitiés oh actoinplishing in onë stroke a task which had awaited completion for ihany months.
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