If given world-wide distribution, the authorities stated, the photographs ere expected to "accomplish much toward counteracting before the eyes of the world the mendacious Chinese propaganda alleging that Canton is a defenceless and open town and a helpless target for Japanese air attacks,"
Further strengthening of air defence establishments in Canton and the air force in South China was decided upon at a military conference in Canton recently, according to a press message received here today from Peiping, which quoted an undisclosed "reliable source."
The conference was said to have decided also to strengthen forts in South China likely to be attacked by Japanese troops and warships, and to allot regular troops and volunteers to the defence of South China.
The conference was convoked, the Peiping dispatch said, by Gen. Ho Ying-ching, former War Minister and now Commander-in-Chief of the defence headquarters in South China.
Those attending the conference were said to have been Gen. Vu Han-mou, Pacification Commissioner of Kwangtung province and concurrently Commander of the Fourth Route Arry; Gen, Wu Te-chen, Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government, and Gen. Hwang Hsu-chu, Chairman of the Kwangsi Provincial Government.—Domel.
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