Amoy, Sept. 21.
Early this month Admiral Lim was arrested by the Cantonese military authorities, but he was released on the following day by an order from Nanking and reinstated in command. The Admiral however, refused to return to duty and retired to Kulangsu. Mayor Lising has resigned. During his tenure of office he accomplished much useful work, but his policy was invariably a peaceful one. He had arranged with the Japanese Consul-General that Amoy should not be attacked if it were not made a military centre. ' Suddenly the 175th division of the Cantonese army Occupied the city-and all treaty arrangements were at an end.
The Mayor's last act of office was to appeal to the members of the Rotary Club to give generously to form a nucleus for a local Red Cross fund. He remarked as he left that in half an hour, he was handing over to his successor, who had arrived, and he was leaving at once for Foochow. The following morning four aeroplanes appeared and dropped bombs on the city. The Japanese airmen exercised great care and dropped their bombs as far as possible only on Government offices and military quarters, The Central Police Station had a hole knocked through its roof, while some houses were damaged. A dent was made in one of the streets, and an empty motor car was set on fire. One girl was killed. The damage done was surprisingly small and the machine and Lewis guns which were used against the planes were, of course, wholly useless and the only real danger which the people encountered, The moral effect, however, on the populace was great; After the planes left the people rushed in crowds for Kulangsu and the little island soon was filled to overflow. The demand for houses surpassed all possible supply, rents soared and the sampan men who had been grumbling at the loss of their livelihood by the new ferry system, begun by Mayor Lising, grumbled no longer, demanded their own price for transportation, got it from hurrying, anxious evacuees, and reaped a rich harvest. On the following morning the aeroplanes returned and bombed the military headquarters at the Nampootoh Temple and the naval wireless station. Two planes dropped more bombs on the city, but little damage was done and no one was killed.
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