RAID ON CALCUTTA
FIVE HUNDRED CIVILIAN CASUALTIES MORE THAN ONE-THIRD FATAL. LIGHT MILITARY LOSS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) NE.W DELHI, December 6. Referring to the Japanese air raid on Calcutta yesterday, a communique says: “It is considered to be in the public interest to reveal the extent to which civilian personnel, as compared with military personnel, suffered in the raid. The military casualties were one killed and 13 wounded, whereas there were 500 civilian casualties, of which more than one-third were fatal.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1943, Page 4
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87RAID ON CALCUTTA Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1943, Page 4
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