HEAVY CASUALTIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1939, Page 5

HEAVY CASUALTIES

HUGE JAPANESE AIR RAID ON CHINESE WALLED CITY. UNCONTROLLABLE FIRES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. CHUNGKING, August 21. Three-quarters ol" Kia! ingl'n has been destroyed alter a huge .Japanese raid, which caused uncontrollable fires. No details of the casualties are available but they are believed to be enormous. The city walls prevented quick evacuation of the inhabitants. It is assumed the raid resulted from a .Japanese broadcast that General Chiang Kaishek had moved to Kiatingfu. although he is still in Chungking. MANY DEAD & INJURED AUSTRALIANS AND OTHERS NARROWLY ESCAPE. CANADIAN CHURCH AND CLINIC DESTROYED. (Received This Day. 10.20 a.m.) CHUNGKING. August 21. The Japanese air raid on Kiatingfu resulted in over 500 casualties. Three Australians Mr Peter King, Mrs King and Mrs H. Mclntyre,, a Canadian, Miss McLean and an American, Miss Theoring, narrowly escaped. The Canadian church and clinic were demolished and buildings in the business district wrecked. Nine university students were killed. ANOTHER RAID ON FRENCH LEASED TERRITORY. (Independent Cable Service.) (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, August 21. The Exchange Telegraph Agency’s Hong Kong correspondent says Japanese planes, from a warship anchored at the Pakhoi treaty port, are reported to have bombed and machine-gunned the surrounding country, thus violating Kwangchowman, which was leased to the French in 1898, for 99 years.