Hankow, Feb. 15.
Casualties estimated in foreign reports to have ranged between 500 and 1.200 are believed to have been caused yesterday at Chengchow, at the junction of the Peiping-Hankow and the Lunghai railway when Japanese plane: raided the city in reli for two hours, In the course of the attack three bombs fell in the compound of the American Baptist Mission, The buildings of the mission suffered slight damage, but there were no casualties, The main objectives of the raiders appeared to have been the station of the two railways, but misdirected bombs falling in the densely-populated area surrounding them caused widespread havoc.
A bomb fell on an overcrowded Chinese hotel, while another made a direct hit on the dugout at the Lunghai Railway station, burying the occupants in a mass of debris, Anxiety is felt over the fate of a few Frenchmen and—Netherlanders connected with the Lunghai Railway who, it is believed, may have taken refuge in the dugout, together with Chinese employees of the railway, when the air-raid signal was sounded.
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