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While Japanese planes have rained tons of bombs on Canton the past fortnight (see p. 77), Chinese confined their long-range air activities to bloodless raids on Japan. One night last week air-raid sirens screamed, lights were blacked out all over Kyushu Island, at the southwestern end of the Japanese group, as enemy bombers roared overhead. Apparently designed to test the vulnerability of Japan's defenses or to stir anxiety among the Japanese, the raid ended without a bomb being dropped. Three weeks ago a squadron of U. S.-made Martin bombers, piloted by Chinese, took off from Hankow, made a 12,000-mile round trip to Kyushu Island. Over industrial Nagasaki, Kyushu Port and Japan's naval base at Sasebo. the flyers released bales of leaflets urging the Japanese people to throw off their military domination, responsible for the invasion of China.