The coup d'etat ' was to have broken loose the next morning. Be-{ween the hours.of 6 am. and noon, with grenades and revolvers, the plotters wore to rush government Mees, A fleet of Japanese a planes was to bomb promiscuously, and there would be a reign of terror such as Canton has not experienced years.
Most of the morning after the plotters had been foiled, the planes were on hand, In groups of five and. three and two they incessantly came. and went one took long chances for big. guns and small Kept battering way at them as never before, Con-Unually they circled over Fengehun Lut the awaited signal never came.
"Taipans came out of their offices to look on and were much buzz fat the strange. antics of these fliers whose bombs never came down. Taking their tives in their hands, the Japanese pilots came down to little more than 1,000 feet, and one fof them failed to climb back into the clouds fast enough. This plane only managed to gain some distance Lerore it zigzagged downwards, and two days later was found imiies beyond Canton.
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