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U.S.S. HOUSTON 
MORNING PRESS NEWS 
18 July, 1938 
FOREIGN NEWS (Continued) 
Cant on: 
Japanese warplanes roared over Canton Sunday bombing the 
^ongsha railroad station and the territory north along the 
Canton Hankow railroad. At least one hundred persons were 
killed or wounded. 
London: 
Great Britian, seeking to counteract German and Italian pressure 
which is .endangering the Mediterranean Empire Lifeline has 
intensified her political and economic drive in south eastern 
Europe, it became apparent Sunday. 
London: 
clrc - J - es received reports Sunday that Mahatma 
sandhi and his all-India congress is threatening nationwide 
passive resistance because of dissatisfaction with the Fed- 
eral Government system embodied in the Government of India 
Act 
Shanghai : 
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Chinese military forces, apparently rejuvenated by arrival of 
new war guns and heavy artillery from Europe, appeared Sunday 
o have delivered a smashing setback to the Japanese program 
for the capture of Hankow, temporary capital of China. Reports 
i rom both sides indicated that the Japanese have been tempor- 
^ ri ;% halted east of Kiukiang, the last major obstacle between 
hanking and Hankow. Chinese reports said that their artillery 
^ad driven Japanese land forces back along the river below 
Kiukiang. 
J erusalem: 
Arabs and a Jew were added to casualty lists of Pales- 
— s current racial war Sunday. The Jew. was ambushed and 
shot and the Arabs found slain in an Orange Grove near Jaffa. 
Belfast : 
A bomb thrown into the offices of the Daily Mail early Sunday 
shattered the entrance and damaged stonework of the building 
but no one was injured. 
Tokyo : 
The. Japanese Government prepared Sunday a second protest 
against Soviet Russia’s alleged occupation of Manchoukuoan 
Territory. Officials said the situation along the border was 
the most . dangerous since border incidents of a year ago threat- 
ened to involve- the long time enemy nations in a war. Russia 
rejected the first Japanese protest on the ground territory 
reportedly seized and fortified by Soviet patrols belongs to 
Russia. 
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