Big Death Toll Over Wide Area in Chekiang Hangchow, Nov. 7.
Japanese air raids over eleven cities in north-eastern Chekiang yesterday exacted a death toll of 53 and 151 injured, so far as could be certained this morning.
These figures, however, exclude the casualties list of the bombing at Kashan of a Chinese Red Cross train with wounded soldiers aboard, about which details are still lacking.
Figures available indicate that in the eleven cities bombed, a total of 144 bombs were dropped and 96 houses in all were demolished, The highest death toll was at Tunghsiang, 30 miles west of Chapoo, where fifteen persons were killed and fifteen others injured, while the single highest injured list was reported from Changon, twenty miles north-east of Hangchow, namely between 50 and 60.—Central News,
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