Canton, Feb. 19
The Canton-Kowloon Railway was raided this morning at 9.30 when five Japanese aeroplanes dropped 14 bombs between Cheungmuktou and Tonztingwei. A number of missiles were also loosed near Kongmei. The detonations of the exploding bombs could be distinctly heard in Canton, where a number of buildings were shaken. So far the damage caused by the raid has not been ascertained.
—Reuter.
Renewing a soi h Sinsiang, 100 kilometres south of Changteh on the Peiping-Hankow Railway in northern Honan, the Japanese Morita detachment captured {the walled town of Hwokiahsien, 20 kilometres south of Sinsian yesterday, according to a field dispatch reaching here to-day.
nable to stem the swift Japanese drive, the Chinese fórces were falling back towards the north bank of the Yellow River with their ranks disorganized, the message said.—Domei.
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