The Archive · 1937

Whampoa, Again Raided

Canton, Sepi. 30.

While no Japanese aeroplanes have visited Canton, a phone call at noon to-day states' that there has been considerable aerial activity' over Whampoa alt morning.

Two Japanese planes, believed from an aircraft carrier, surveyed and) dropped bombs. The main objective, the Naval Academy, is Believed not to have been hit" but some damage must have resulted in the vicinity and apparently -explains the short alarm sounded this morning. A second alarm was sounded at 2 O'clock this afternoon.—Reuter,

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