: Made; Assurances Alleged Broken i... London, Feb. 21.
The British: Government have instructed their Ambassador in Tokyo, Sir Robert Craigie, to lodge a protest with the Jepanese Government against the bombing of Hongkong territory by have no detailed information concerning this but are convinced that Sir Robert Will be in possession of a full report when he sees the Japanese authorities.—Havas.
Hongkong Demarche Hongkong, Feb. 21.
Maj-Gen. A. E. Grasset, General Officer Commanding British Forces in China, this morning filed oral representations, through a Staff Officer, with Mr. Ichiro Ohta; acting Japanese-Consul-General here, over the bombing of British territory near the Chinese border by Japanese aircraft at about 930 o'clock this morning. He reserved to right to make further protests.
One Indian constable and ten Chinese were killed by the explosion of six bombs that fell into British territory when nine Japanese bombers attacked Shumchun, Chinese border town near the Kowloon Leased Territory.
Raining about seventy bombs in c period of forty minutes, the Japanese aeroplanes demolished Shumchun station'and a radio station, while a huge conflagration swept the town soon after the raid, reports reaching here said. Ninety-eight persons were known to have been killed and-120 wounded in the attack of Shumchun.
Japanese Entry into Hoihow Japanese troops are here shown making their triumphal entry into Hoihow the port of Kiungchow, the capital, after their surprise landing on Hainan Island on the morning of February 10.
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