Number of Children Victims of Japanese Bombers hanghai. Oct. seventeen Chinese, includ of children. were killed in morning's air raid. by Japanese bombing "planes on a Chine ese village situated about a quarter from the Rubicon Inn Rubicon Road. Chinese and foreign citoles yesterday were unable to ae~ count for the raid, as it is reported that no' Chinese soldiers tre to be found in the village. So far it had hada comparatively peaceful According to the villagers the raid started at about 10 o'clock in the morning, when nine Japanese bom= bers suddenly appeared and dropped a number of bombs; the planes, it alleged, then returned, to dive low and spray the village with a hail of machine-gun bullets, Between twenty and thirty village ers were injured in this, the first raid. 'Those killed comprised the mother and wife of one villager, the two young daughters of another, the baby' son of a third, and two as yet unidentified Chinese, The village had hardly realised that the first raid was over when ten more Japanese planes appeared in the sky. They circled, and then flew westwards, only to return and drop ten bombs, according to the villagers. Ten more people lost their lives, thirty or more were injured, and a large
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