Canton, Oct, 3.
An air-raid alarm was sounded heresshortly after midday to-day, but no-Japanese planes appeared over the city. According to a reliable Chinese source, seven Japanese planes dropped ten bombs at Whampoa. A. number of huts were damaged during the September 28 when this fort was being repaired by the Chithese—Domel, Second Sloop Sunk in Whampoa Canton, Oct. 1.
Whampoa is the latest target of Japanese aerial attacks, according to reports received here.
The port had a particularly bad time yesterday when one bomb fell through the "roof of the Military Academy, which was founded by General" Chiang Kal-shek and providing most of the officers now Aghting against the Japanese in the Shanghai area.
In the course of two further raids this morning, a second sloop was sunk while many smaller craft in the harbour were damaged, Bombs were also dropped on the aerodrome near Shekpal but no Chinese planes were on the ground at the time—Reuter.
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