From the big carrier standing by off Nane, an island near the shore just about where Fukien and Kwangtung meet, two bombers and four {pursuit planes took off with the object of subjecting Canton. to a bombardment. Skilfully the pilots gave all the big towns and military posts a wide berth. so they were over Hohyuen before the first report of the flight came to the metropolis and then by a telegraphic message from the East River town. In about fifteen minutes after that the enemy was over Canton, Rules of zed warfare were religiously observed, and despite the many projectiles that anti-aircraft guns fired the Japanese did not reply while over the thickly-settled portion of the city. Perhaps it was because, out of respect for these most modern weapons that the flyers kept to a height of 6,000 to 7,000 feet, and so they were in no danger of destruction from the bursts. From Shameen, the foreign settlement, one could see the smoke when the shells burst far below the enemy's aircraft.
The military claim that the Japanese wanted to wreck the big arsenal at Shektseng beyond Canton on the North River. But six Chinese aeroplanes that went aloft from a field near the arsenal were espied. and the hostile ships about-faced and started their bombardment over Saichuen on the western side of the city where are the cement plant and other government factories. One bomb came down near the electric power house, but as sandbags were piled along its walls it came through the ordeal unscathed.
Two mechanics were killed, one wounded when, power-diving, a Japanese aviator turned on his machine-gun over the Tinho aerodrome. Bombs all fell harmlessly. No so at the civil aviation field at Shekpai, just east of Canton, where one or two direct hits were scored. All the planes were being held in Kwangsi. Three peasants were killed, three hurt, Slight damage was done to the gate at the Chungshan University in the same general locality. A bomb fell on the highway near Fuktan Middle School and five peasants sustained injuries, Because of the height at which the adversary kept his machines most of the time, though eleven Chinese planes got into the air by the time the Tinho airport was attacked, they contented themselves with gaining height themselves, and waited for the return flight of the foe. By so doing, they got above him and a battle was fought after the two squadrons passed Whampoa,
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