The Archive · 1937

American Mission Bombed

Hongkong, Sept, 12.

"The Japanese bombing of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission and hospital in Waichow, northern Kwangtung, was described to-day by Rev. P. V. Thomas, member of the Seventh Day Adventists, who arrived here from the scene itself. He brought with him five Chinese, two of whom were wounded in the attack.

The Japanese planes dived very low and must have seen the two American flags prominently display: over the mission, he said. attack on the mission looked deliberate as the nearest military post was half a mile away. That also was bombed.

The damage to the mission was estimated at $3,000. Bombs just missed the hospital itself, landing in the compound, The patients were panicked. All but those too sick to move, fled the institution.

The Chinese populace was indign. ant over the bombing of the American mission, he concluded—United Press.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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