Hongkong, Jan. 29.
Towns, and villages throughout Kwangtung are still subjected to daily bombings by Japanese aeroplanes, particularly, those along the Cantons Hankow. Railway, which during the past week, has apparently been the main. objective rather than the Canton-Kowloon line.
Air-raid alarms in Canton are now Xakep, as, a matter of course Twice, this week near by air-fields have been bombed, in each case the detonations being audible throughout the ety, but farmers in adjacent field on both, occasions carried on their labours amperturbed.
In, the second instance soldiers at Tungshan continued to play football beneath a sky dotted with anti-Gireraft smoke.
Although no, regular passen trains on the Canton-Hankow Railw have yet been attacked, foreign reports to-day state that a free; was hit on Tuesday near the Kwang tung border.
While.the train was taking refuge a tunnel, the nose of the locomotive, the only part of the train no! under shelter, received a direct hit from a bomb. The damage was not Serious, and no one was injured.
Meanwhile, considerable interest centres on the motor trip from Hankow of the two Britons, Captain C. R. Boxer, of the Lincolnshire Regiment, ana Mr. "Tim" Charlton, adopted son of Mr. Charlton, formerly of the Asiatic Petroleum Company in Shanghai.
The pair left Hankow for Hongkong өn January 26. It is expected that the fatter part of their journey will be full of thrills.—Reuter.
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