The Archive · 1937

NANKING BOMBED

PUKOW AREA OF

Tsinpu Railway is Chief Objective of Japanese Raiders: Wuhu Also Attacked Nanking, Sept. 27.

While the Canton-Hankow Railway was being attacked in the south, Japanese planes subjected the Tien-sin-Pukow Railway to two aerial bombardments. to-day.

"According to a Chinese telephone message from Pukow, bombs landed on the matshed dwellings of poor people, killing three and wounding 80, during the-morning raid, while in, the second attack at noon 40 feet of alls and three freight cars were destroyed. One bomb is also ported to have landed outside the Pukow Primary school, killing one and wounding over ten persons.

'The Yunglee Chemical works, approximately ten miles north' of Pukow, wore also bombed and damaged in the morning, It is understood that nine bombs were dropped. but the main buildings remained, standing, Sailors aboard foreign warships off Hsiakwan had a grandstand view of to-day's rads. "They confirmed that bombs landed in the midst of matshed dwellings, and also clearly saw one telegraph or telephone pole blown: into mid-air.

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