HEAVY RAIDS
MADE ON CHUNGKING MORE THAN 400 PLANES PARTICIPATE. BOMBING LASTS FOR 9i HOURS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright' (Received This Day. 12.45 p.m.) CHUNGKING. August 11. Four hundred Japanese planes participated in the most severe aerial bombardment Chungking has yet suffered. The raids lasted for nine and a half hours. The alarm sounded at 4.10 a.m.. after only a short lull from Sunday's raids, which kept the populace underground for fourteen hours. Today’s attack was the culmination of a series of raids, during the past four days, in which more than 3,000 bombs have been dropped.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1941, Page 6
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97HEAVY RAIDS Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1941, Page 6
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