Nanking, Nov, 17 Dr. J.C. 'Thoroughman and the Rev, RT. Henry. of the Methodist Mission Hospital In Soochow, who arrived here this morning' from Yiching, report that "the Chinese engineer of the Soochow University Hospital had informed them that Allen Hall and the gymnasium of the "Soochow University. Hospital were bombed during the big Japan-raid on the city at the beginning this. week.
The Soochow Hospital Clinic was also hit, Some of the wounded, it ig believed, were still in the Univer= sity Hospital at the time of the bombing, There are no military establishments in that quarter of the city. only hospitals and mission buildings. The roof of the Clinic was marked with a large American lag.
The engineer reported that Soochow had been badly damaged in the recent raids, particularly the business quarter. No estimate of the casual ties was possible, but they were believed to have been heavy, For a week before leaving Soochow. "Mr, Thoroughman stated, foreigners experienced an anxious time with no news. light or water, and continual Japanese bombing, "AMI day Tong." hie said, "we heard the drone of the aeroplanes and the crash of the bombs falling in the
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