The spokesman was then asked whether the materials collected also included furniture and household goods. The places now being cleared. he said, were areas which had been destroyed by fire ana there, therefore could not be any furniture to colle When it was pointed out that jo Japanese military truck, the licence number and make of which was given, had been seen removing blackwood furniture from a point at the corner of Chaoufoong and East Seward Roads on Monday and Tuesday, the spokesman said:—"The fact that that property was being removed does not mean it was being seized; it may have been removed 10 another place for storage: there are Places which the Japanese authorities are now req! tioning and have to be cleared of furniture and things like that. Insofar as such matters are concerned. a strict watch is exercised over the removal of such articles." flying thick and fast, One rumour in particular, uprising was in tha offing, the most alarm and concern; but if any such plan was actually afoot for to-day, it must have been nipped in the bud.
With the boom on the Pearl River closed and martial law in force, Canton awoke in an atmosphere of tense uncertainty. All motor-cars entering ity were stopped and searched was eventful. Japanese planes visited Canton and crossed and recrossed the sky with antiaircraft shells bursting on all sides.
Some of the machines swooped danger ously low, almost miraculously escaping direct hits. No bombs were dropped, however, the raiders apparently reserving their missiles for the railways.
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