Hongkong, Sept. 22.
Chinese military positions at Pawashan, near Shekwan, south-west of Canton, were subjected to heavy Eombardment by Japanese warships at 9 am. yesterday according to a Jepanese naval spokesman who said that the aerial bombardment of Cunton by Japanese naval planes yesterday morning resulted in heavy @umage to the Tienho and Paiyunshan aerodromes and that several wireless stations were also bombed. The Yuantung Military Academy, he said, was demolished while bombs caused a fire in the government cement manufacturing factory near the Canton-Hankow railway outside Canton, Panic-stricken refugees are pouring into the suburbs of Canton as a result of Japanese aerial bombardment.—Domei.
Italians as Raiding Pilots?
Hongkong, Sept, 22.
Unconfirmed Chinese reports received here indicate that the twò pilots shot down above Canton this morning were indisputably foreigners. Papers in the pockets of the flyers indicate, it is said. that they were Italians, Additional reports on the raid state that it resulted in ghastly carnage, with hundreds of civilians dismembered in the streets.
United Press.
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