RAID ON CHUNGKING
EMBASSIES DAMAGED BV BOMBS NUMBER OF CHINESE KILLED. i DEFENDING PLANES DRIVE OFF j BOMBERS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. CHUNGKING. August 4. The British and French Embassies were damaged and the German Embassy badly shattered during a raid by 27 Japanese planes. The windows of the British and French Embassies were broken and the ceilings brought down. Four Chinese were killed in a house between the Embassies. A bomb fell 100 yards from a dugout in which two members of the British staff were sheltering. Three Chinese were killed outside the German Embassy. Chinese planes drove off the first group of 18 raiders, nine of which penetrated, causing havoc in the city and suburbs.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1939, Page 7
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116RAID ON CHUNGKING Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1939, Page 7
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