The. planes went on to visit the Other terminus of the line, on the fiver above Chaochowfu, and dropped pombe there, but no damage or game ad dropped a few there; are reported; they went
way back out to see one of them disgrace itself by a very foul piece of work. It came upon one of the launches that ply
its machine-gun on and Swatow, flew 3 CT passengers were kill-Yom tea "ES since died. were wounded, of least four of them
It is difficult to see how the wholesale massacre of a helpless crowd of harmless folk cooper up in a boat puas any means of escape is justi-either as an act of legitimate Warfates or as an achievement radiate ing great glory on the Japanese Imperial navy. Hitherto, at least in ese parts, the naval planes have justly earned respect by confining their attacks to legitimate objectives,
force; now they too have fouled their arker contrast to the land air reputation with a crime which has Surprised and disgusted the loca} foreign community even more than the Chinese.
The population of the port has been steadily increasing again since the great evacuation in October, when it sunk to between thirty and 40,000. A recent police census report gave it as a little over 100,000—still only half of what it was before the outbreak of war/! This growth is in ite of warnings from the mayor tht Who have no business or here should p^ work that re their presence
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