Canton, Apr. 17.
Canton spent an exciting day today with two Japanese air raids which, according to Chinese reports, took a toll of 50 persons dead and 100 wounded. The first alarm was sounded at 1215 pin. Soon afterwards, the raiders appeared. fying at a high altitude, and dropped fifteen bombs in the northern suburbs of the city, near the Sun Yat-sen Monument. Most of the missiles landed in open spaces. but. unluckily, some of them fell on dwellings occupied by civilians.
Thirty planes are reported to have engaged in the raid, their objective apparently being a concentration of recruits which sometimes drills in in the vicinity. Hardly had the terror subsided when the alarm was once more sounded, this time at 3.45 pam, A little while later, Japanese planes appeared, dropped several more bombs, turned south, and quickly vanished.—Reuter.
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