Defending Fighters Drive Off Attackers Before Bombs are Dropped; Casualties in Canton Hankow, Apr. 18. CE more moonlight raids were staged over Hankow in the early hours of this morning; making a total of eight night raids in thirty hour: Three heavy bombers took part in each raid, The Arst raid was made shortly after midnight, the bombers coming from the direction of Anhwei province. They dropped between 20 and 40 bombs in the vicinity of Hankow The next batch of bombers appeared over Hankow shortly after 2 a.m, fse coming from, the direction of Anhwei province. They were met by Chinese pursuit machines and driven ack from the aerodrome. Crossing the Yangtze as they retreated they dropped ten bombs in the vicinity of the commercial aerodrome at Nanhu, South Lake.
Shortly afler 3 am, another batch of three heavy bombers were sighted approaching Hankow, coming from down river. They were met by Chinese pursuit planes and turned back without dropping any bombs.
Another Japanese air raid was staged on Hankow yesterday evening. It was the fifth said to be staged on the temporary capital during the Full details of this last raid are not yet available, though Chinese pursuit planes were seen to engage' them Severely, The four previous raids Yesterday failed to do any material damage, all the bombs falling wide of acrodrome, the apparent -Japanese day respite, Japanese naval aircraft bombed. the \Canton-Kowloon Railway and highways near Canton on Thursday, a Japanese naval spokesman revealed yesterday morning:
'A railway bridge near Sheklung was hit and "badly damaged," the spokesman claimed. Highways near Canton were bombed and holed at various points, he added, In Central China, naval aircraft carried out bombing operations on Chinese positions near Tatung, upriver on the Yangtze from Wuhu, Steamers Bombed Macao, Apr. 24.
Two small Chinese passenger steamers were bombed and sunk by Japan-see planes last evening fifteen, miles north-west of Macao while on their way here from Kongmoon, according {o four Chinese survivors reaching The survivors state in their account that the attack was carried out by two machines, which flew very low and dropped six bombs, "redue~ ing the decks of the vessels to a shambles."
More than 100 Chinese, they assert, were either killed instantly drowned. In addition to the four survivors reaching here, some 30} others are believed to have been rescued and landed elsewhere Reuter. Many Casualties in Canton Hongkong, Apr. 18. Canton suffered its most disastrous it raid sines the start of the hostillties yesterday, local Chinese papers said today.
Relays of planes indiscriminately bombed the city, dropping bombs on five schools and many dwellings in congested areas, the vernacular press reported. The air raiders were also reported to have swooped down and machine-gunned the streets.
"The exict number of casualties has} not, been ascertained, but the Chinese press said there were hundreds of Victims, most of whom were scholar Amoy and Foochow were also roided, but the damage done was} small and there were but few easualtes, the Chinese papers said, The "Hongkong Telegraph's" Macao} correspondent reported that there were numerous raids carried out by the Japanese on the southern coast of Kwanjtung resulting in heavy casualties, The Chinese Maritime Customs launch Tongkawan was sunk by Japanese planes, the correspondent reported—United Press,
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