Hongkong, May 30.
The Hongkong Government. today was instituting mass inoculations and vaccinations because of fears of out breaks of cholera and typhus contingent on the influx of thousands of refugees into the Colony from Canton.
Passengers were treated by special medical officers aboard trains and ships while en route here.
Two thousand destitute refugees have been already rounded up and placed under the care of the Hongkong Government.
"The exodus of fear-stricken Chinese from Canton was reaching huge proportions today as every steamer from the "City of the Rams" was jammed to capacity. Hundreds crowded the decks of the ships 'A special train, which was not on schedule to arrive here; came in une expectedly and brought an additional 1800 refugees united Press.
Suburbs Bombed Shanghai, Moy 31. Continuing a series of intensive raids against "Chinese "communications facilities, military' positions, Jand plants engaged inthe manu facture of war supplies, "more than 30" Japanese naval bombers. visited Canton and its environs on May 29, a naval spokesman announced Shanghai yesterday morning.
'A sulphuric acid factory and the jcleetric power plant at Saichuen in the suburbs of Canton were claimed by the spokesman to have been hit by bombs and set on fire, while a lcement factory nearby was also [badly damaged by Japanese missiles.
'Repeating their attack upon the Wongsha railway station, terminal lof the Canton-Hankow Railway, the Japanese bombers wrecked or' sot fon" fire the remaining station structures and godowns, the spokesman asserted.
Plane Factory Damaged Turning their attention towards an aeroplane repair factory in the south-eastern part of the city, the Tapanese attackers bombed the ft, causing intensive damage, while the antlalrernft positions defending the Honam industrial area were similarly attacked, added. The guns, he claimed, were leneed, Tu. Kiangsu, Japanese naval craft continued their attacks upon Chinese troop concentrations and units on the move in the vicinity lof Haichow, the spokesman dec!
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