CANTON BOMBED BY JAPANESE
Hundreds Dead And Wounded PANIC SEIZES INHABITANTS Streets Wrecked: Fires Raging (UNITED ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Received May 29, 8.38 p.m.) CANTON, May 28. TLo city is staggering under im tense Japanese bombing, begun at 11.15 a.m. to-day. By noon 100 bombs had been dropped from groups of aeroplanes flying over the city. The raiders returned at 115 p.m. At least 500 were killed and 900 wounded, including 40 killed and 50 wounded when they were trapped during the second raid. Wongsha was bombed four times. A hundred houses were destroyed. Bombs fell near the public hospital, which is far removed from the military establishments. On the contrary, the Japanese account from Tokyo states: “Forty aeroplanes effectively bombed the Canton railways and military establishments.” Across the river the scene was one of terrible confusion. Thousands of panic-stricken inhabitants tried- to cross to the foreign settlement, where guards prevented them from entering. Most of them took refuge along the waterfront, so that the carnage was less than had been feared.
Fires are raging in the densely populated Saikwan and Wongsha areas, both of which are pitted with immense craters. Two streets adjacent to the Wongsha station were demolished. Rescuers are still at work removing victims from the wreckage. N.Z. AUTHORESS IN CHINA “ROBIN HYDE” MISSING DEPARTURE FOR WAR-ZONE SHANGHAI, May 27. The Japanese authorities are searching for a New Zealand journalist, Miss Iris Wilkinson (Robin Hyde), who departed on donkeyback from Hsuchow to the northeastern front, which is now overrun by Japanese troops retreating from Langfeng. She may possibly have taken refuge with missionaries, who were determined to remain at Hsuchow to safeguard Chinese refugees. Miss Wilkinson is better kno\yn throughout New Zealand as Robin Hyde, under which name she has written several books of fiction and verse, and has made regular contributions to magazines published in the Dominion. LAST LETTER FROM CANTON “ROBIN HYDE’S” JOURNEY (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELXGKAM.) WELLINGTON, May 28. , Miss Iris Wilkinson, who is reported missing in China, is better known as Robin Hyde. She left New Zealand in January with the intention of proceeding via Shanghai, Kobe, Vladivostok, and the transSiberia railway to Russia and thence to England, but her itinerary was interrupted by the lengthening of her stay in China, where she was engaged in journalistic work. Her family last heard from her in a letter from Canton on April 2. She stated that she intended to go to Hankow, and then as far as she could towards the war zone, writing for various periodicals, but this was to occupy only a month. 4
CHOLERA EPIDEMIC IN SHANGHAI DANGER OF SPREAD AMONG REFUGEES SHANGHAI, May 27. Eight of 18 suspected Chinese cases are confirmed as cholera, and the outbreak has been declared an epidemic. An extension is feared because of the hundreds of thousands of refugees living in insanitary conditions. Cholera has also broken out at Pootung, to which the Japanese have dispatched a medical corps in the hope of preventing the spread to their own forces'. Shanghai clinics have inoculated 70,000 persons. RAILWAY WRECKED BY JAPANESE MOVEMENT OF BRITISH NAVAL RATINGS PREVENTED (Received May 29, 7.50 p.m.) HONG KONG, May 28. . In spite of a notification of the dispatch to-day of a special train carrying British naval ratings to relieve the crews of British 'gunboats on the Yangtse river, the Japanese wrecked the Kowloon-Cahton railway overnight so that the train was unable to leave
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22414, 30 May 1938, Page 9
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