CHUNGKING EMPTIED
AIR RAID CASUALTIES VERY HEAVY MANY TRAPPED IN DUGOUTS. ONLY ABLEBODIED PEOPLE TO REMAIN. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day. 12.15 p.m.) CHUNGKING, May 10. General Chiang Kai-shek has ordered the evacuation from the capital of all except ablebodied people and members of diplomatic corps. Foreigners have been granted residence permits for six months. Further details of last week’s bombing show that the .death-roll far exceeds four thousand. Hundreds of bodies were discovered in a single exit from dugouts in which they were suffocated or burned. FOOCHOW BOMBED HUNDRED HOUSES BLOWN UP. CHINESE RAID AERODROME IN CANTON. (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) CHUNGKING, May 10. The Japanese today again bombed Foochow and Ningpo, a hundred houses being blown up. Meantime Chinese guerillas are continuing their pressure on Canton, where it is reported they raided an aerodrome and destroyed planes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 May 1939, Page 8
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