Although the bombs scored direct hit on the locomotive, they failed to strike any of the passenger coaches, the student asserted, All of the passengers. immediately swarmed out of the train as soon as they heard the drone of the planes. They ran out to adjoining paddy fields and threw themselves flat the mud, One Chinese woman died during this attack, apparently because heart failure as a result of shock, the student. said, With the locomotive blasted beyond repair, they were forced to await the arrival of relief locomotive which came on the scene at 7 pam, on Thursday.
But soon after the journey was resumed, a second air raid alarm was sounded' and the passengers again scrambled out of doors and windows and darted into the paddy fields which were by the tracks. They spent the night in the folds and were soaked through but, without sustaining a scratch, the student asserted, Meanwhile, local church bodies and social relief" groups are organizing refugee centres and coping with an estimated 500,000 Chinese refugees who have fled here as a result of the bombing of Canton and the attack on Amoy United Press, U.S. Protests Wanshington, June 9.
Mr. Cordell Hull, Uniied States Secretary of State, through Mr. Joseph Grew, U, S. Ambassador in 'Tokyo, today' formally protested to the Japanese Foreign OMlce against the bombing of the American-owned Lingnan University at Canton by Japanese planes on June 8 Mr. Hull Instructed Mr, Grew to ask the Japanese military authorities to take urgent measures to prevent further attacks on the Lingnan University property.
This was the second protest to be filed with Japan over the bombing of the educational Institution, The American Vice-Consul at Canton protested to Mr. Toyoichi Nakamura, Japanese Consul-General at Hongkong, on the day of the-bombing.
Japanese planes, flying in groups of throw and at an altitude of about 10,000 feet, dropped three bombs on the western area of the Lingnan University campus on June 8, They fell 200 yards from residential quarlers used by 32 Americans, three Britons and one German, killing one Chinese woman agricultural worker fand wounding two other Chinese The nearest possible military ob-Jectives to the University were found to be an anti-aircraft battery 135 miles away and a civilian airport on the posite side of Pearl River at a Jdistance of two mites, reports reaching here from American professors of the University said.
Although American-owned, Lingnan University was flying the Chinese flag the time of the bombing because is under tease to Chinese interests, <United Press, In the second raid, in the afternoon, bombs were dropped on the offices of the Municipal Government, the Saichuen factory aren, and "archie" batteries at Shaokwan, "Several" direct hits, the communique said, were scored on the municipal buildings,
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