HAVOC IN CHUNGKING
ANOTHER JAPANESE? RAID
CASUALTIES ESTIMATED AT 1000.
MANY FIRES STARTED.
(By Telegraph—Press Associat ion— Copyright)
(Received This Day. J 2.20 p.m.)
CHUNGKING. August 9
Ono hundred Japanese planes bombed Chungking. The casualties are estimated at 1000. mostly civilian. Six areas within the city were set on fire. The American Methodist Mission School and Physics Building were damaged. Fires broke out near the United Slates.
A Shanghai message says the Japanese assert that the above-mentioned Chungking raid wrecked and burned Chiang Kai-Shek's residence.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1940, Page 6
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