WAR IN CHINA
JAPANESE PLANES BOMB RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER HUNDRED CASUALTIES. BLEAK WEATHER CAUSES MANY DEATHS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, February 3. Japanese planes bombed a bridge on the Hanoi-Kunming railway, states the Shanghai correspondent of the Associated Press of America. The casualties number 100 including ten Occidentals. One hundred frozen bodies, eighty of which are infants, have been picked up in the streets during a cold wave. The Salvation Army is distrißuting rice. Hundreds more died during the day in a snowstorm in the lower Yangtse Valley.
TRAIN DESTROYED MANY PASSENGERS KILLED. BRITISH GUNBOAT CREWS ASSIST IN RESCUE WORK. (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) TOKIO. February 2. Twenty-seven Japanese planes participated in the Hanoi bombing, destroying a northbound train, on which most of those killed were passengers. The crews of the British gunboats Gannet and Falcon, travelling on a southbound train aided the rescue work.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1940, Page 5
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