Hongkong, Feb. 21.
Several bombs fell in British territory during an air raid on the Sumchun, a border village. This raid was carried out by two Japanese planes which formed a part of a squadron of nine machines which dropped missiles near a train on the Canton-Kowloon Railway on the British side of the border and also dropped bombs on a British-owned bridge. Neither objective was hit.
They ere also said to have loosed Lambs on the Kowloon-Canton highway and other points on the British side of the border, where the Royal Scot Regiment and the Kumaun Rifles are stationed. One bomb fell into an adjacent blockhouse, killing one Indian and several Chinese. A concentration of railway coaches nearby was badly damaged.
As far as it can be ascertained, seventeen bombs were dropped on the Chinese village of Sumchun, from where many wounded persons are heading for the British-leased territories.
The Japanese planes also bombed a mixed freight and passenger train beg|tween Fanling, popular golf course, and lawn, on the British side of the border. One bomb struck the permanent way, shattering carriage windows. It is believed there were ne foreigners aboard the train. As the occupants fled into the fields, a plane is reported to have swooped down and machine-gunned them. Medical supplies have been sent to the border from Hongkong.
"The Japanese Consul-General is referring the matter to the authorities in Canton.—Reuter. opium which, with the aid of the Japanese authorities now ruling these former Chinese-controlled districts, has been transported there to supply local opium hongs, which ply their nefarious trade quite openly and with the full consent of the authorities, who wax rich each month on the sums collected from the owners of the hongs.
There is little doubt that the situa-
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