The Archive · 1938

Ports of Entry for Munitions

Not all war material enters South china "through Hongkong.—Some comes. in through the French possession, Kwangchowwan, and a" lot fenters through French "Indo-China. Over a gap of 25 miles, freight must be transported by highway from the ratheed in Anna, where it has been brought by train from the se coast, "to. Lungchow. in" Kwangsi Traveling over. a. devious "route, goods can be taken by public road fo Chungking or into Hunan, to be shipped by Tall to Mabkow.

For the first time, the Japanese singled out Lungchow for attack to aay, dropping bombs on sheds of the Inighway transportation company. [Several of these sheds were hit and wrecked, but the meagre accounts That have been received do not state whether any goods in transit were In the sheds at the time, "Doubtless the bombing was done in the pectation that" some war supplies twere there.

Air-raids are of daily occurrence almost in Wuchow. "As that city not spread out as much as. is [Canton, in attempting to blow up [Government factories, many private ly-owned factories, residences and shops have been razed to the ground. Canton indirectly has been effected for pigs chickens and. ducks for (Cantonese ables nearly all. come {from Kwangsi through Wuchow, and this' trade has almost stopped, so may of he produce houses haog laid in ruins by the Japanese:

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