The strategically important section. of the Canton-Hankow Railway lying south of Yingtak was bombed and Gamaged in ten points. Numerous freight cars were destroyed at these points, the statement claimed. Military warehouses and junks carrying war supplies in and out of Yingtak were said to have been destroyed by aerial bombing.
Other air force units, meanwhile, raided aerodromes and military establishments at Changtung, near the Fukien-Kiangsu border, and Chuhsien, on the Hangehow-Nanchang Railway. The attackers encountered no resistance and severely @amaged their objectives. Still an-Jother air unit inflicted severe losses! fon Chinese troops concentrations at 2 village near Oningkwo near the Anhwei-Chekiang border, the communique further claimed.
Railway Company in the Wagons Lits Hotel, 'Japanese military trucks and cars career through the city at high, speeds, while the violently-coloured' three-wheeled motor delivery van' which helps to make life in. Tokyo. unendurable has made its appear. tance in -Peiping streets, through which fewer camel caravans-appear to plod. One third of the rickshaws Jseem to be filled by women in' Kimonoes and, another third by Japanese men. /The pavements are fluttered up with vividly painted signs in Japanese pointing the way to shops, restaurants and other. places of business in the side streets. Japanese gendarmes take more than casual hand in police affairs and recently organized a "safety on the street" week during which Chinese police and Japanese gendarmes tried to teach the Chinese how to walk on pavements and how to drive cars, A large number of uniformed JJapanese Consular police have been imported and are to be seen on the streets all the time. Japanese is a compulsory. course in all Chinese schools and Chinese rickshaw-men who used to learn a few words English for the benefit of their trade with foreign tourists are now learn: ing a bit of Japanese, The Japanese spokesman here been subjected to. much ragging" by correspondents who wanted to know who owned [Peiping. This arose out of the closing of many streets for hours at time because of the visit of some high Japanese oficial or minor mem. ber of the Royal Family. Tt had nothing to do with the Provisional Government—the streets were arbittarily closed by Japanese gendarmes [shutting off all "trame "for long periods, Their Livetthood a Mystery How all the Japanese here live remains something of a mystery. The Chinese don't appear to buy much in their shops, nor do forelgners, Indeed most of the shops seem, empty most of the time, It seems impossible that they make a livin of the Japanese army, because they far outnumber the Japanese soldiers is this area. Restaurants and beer halls dd well of course and there have always been Japanese ronin_and Koreans selling drugs:
Most of the small shopkeepers, it stated, have arrived witha few hundred dollars of capital, hoping to make a comfortable living if not fortune and they must be living Jon this small capital while they walt for fortune to smile, The chance re that it will not unless industry gets really going and there appears to be little chance of that for some time to come, It seems difficult to /get money out of Japan for industry re, most of the moneyed Chinese have left long ago and, Row hears nothing of Asiatics," foreign money does not seem to be pouring in.
It may well be that many Japanese who have come to the promised land with modest capital may the forced make tracks for home six months modelled Singapore's defences, arriv-Jed unexpectedly and unannounced in Hongkong on' board the P. & O. liner Chitral today, Air-Commodore Norton and Wing-Commander Norton, from the Royal Air Force, also arrived today in the Chitrat. They will inspect Hong-
Defence Bonds Shanghai, Apr. 28, 'The Finance Ministry of the Reformed Government in Nanking an nounced yesterday that it would not recognize' the validity of the Defence and other bonds now being issued by the "Hankow administration. Any bonds issued in the future by the Hankow regime with any kind of {ax as security" will be held null and void, the statement added, Italian Mission Honoured Changchun, Apr. 26, Emperor Kangte" this morning received in audience members of the Fascist goodwill mission to Japan, now visiting this country. At noon, the Manchoukuo monarch played host to the Ttalians at lunch at the Imperial Palace—Domel.
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