Hongkong, Feb. 5.
Several Japanese warships were driven off by Chinese artillery fire unsuccessful attempt to. enter Amoy harbour yesterday, Chinese reports said here to-day.
Chinese officials in Amoy, after an investigation of the result of the Japanese alr raid on that city on Thursday, said that 22 civilians had been killed and 63 residences destroyed. The Japanese dropped 36 bombs during the raid, reports said.
Meanwhile, in south Chino? one Japanese plane was brought down hear Tehehing, Kwangsi, and another at Tongawan, near Macao, yesterday, Chinese reports said—United Press."
Canton, Feb. 4.
Canton passed through a trying day to-day, with the Japanese staging tone of the' most spectacular air raids in weeks and rumours of every sort flying. thick and fast, One rumour in particular, that an vprising was in the. offing, caused the most alarm and concern; but if any such plan was actually afoot for to-day, it must have been nipped in the bud, With the boom on the Pearl River closed and martial law in force, Canton awoke in an atmosphere of tense uncertainty, All motor-cars entering the city were stopped and searched "The morning was eventful. Japanese planes visited Canton and eros-Sed and recrossed the sky with antiaircraft shells bursting on all. sides. Some of the machines swooped danger ously low, almost miraculously escaping direct hits, No bombs were roped, however, the raiders ap-Earently reserving' their missiles for the railway:
No Dissensi Laughing heartily, General Wu Te-chen, Governor of Kwangtung, told Reuter this afternoon that there was no truth whatever in the rumour of internal dissension.
The precautionary measures introduced yesterday, he explained, were the result of information to the effect that Japanese bombing would be The forts at Bocca Tigris, he said, had been bombed on three occasions today, frst at 6am, then at 1G am, and again at noon.
'The railways also came in for attention on the part of Japanese bombers, while six bombs were roped' near the market-place at Fatshan, where, according to Chinese reports, fifty persons were killed and a large number of others wounded.
Details of the loss of life and damage inflicted by the Japanese planes in other paris of*Kwangtung were still scant this evening, but it was known that several bombs had been dropped on either side of the river "between Canton and the second bar.
'A passenger on a Macao-bound steamer saw Japanese planes dive and bomb the countryside in the vicinity of Whampoa, large piece of shrapnel passed through the roof of a British-owned house at Pakhotung, a few miles south of Canton, where a few wor.en missionaries are staying.
A "Spy Scare"
There has been a great "spy scare here, and it's understood tat several persons have been executed in the past few days. A suspect was arrested opposite the Shameen bridge this morning.
Yesterday evening a stray bullet entered the house of a German resident living In the Tungshan district, but no one was injured, Ships Bottled Up All foreign vessels on the Pearl River -have beer' bottled up -as a
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