Hankow, Mar. 15.
The populace in Hankow exper enced a thrilling evening to-day when more than a dozen Japanese bombers ed a raid on what appeared to be the Hankow air-field.
The sirens were sounded at 6.50 p.m. and an hour later the drone of Japanese planes was clearly audible. Long before the planes appeared over their objective, powerful searchlights had picked out six small dots in the sky. A steady stream of coloured tracer bullets then began shooting upward, followed by cracking bursts of anti-aircraft lire. The raiders, however, flew uta groat height, and as far as is known none was hit, When the planes had flown over Hankow and disappeared from the range of searchlights, a dark pall of smoke was visible in the very clear moonlit sky in the direction of the r-füeld. Five minutes later, the whole sky was lit up by a tremen dous light and, tve or six seconds
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