Shanghai, Sept. 21.
"TAILS of the bombing of Kingshan, a jet county city some incty miles north-west of Hankow, and of the terrible toll in life and limb were received by the "North-China Daily News" yesterday.
Kingshan, without military forces and with no defences save its age-old walls, was bombed by some fifty Japanese aero~ planes on August 29; the city itself is well off the main lines of communication. and is connected with the outside world, in the shape of the' city of Tsao-shih (20 miles away) by an old motor road which, owing to the lack of buses and the bad condi of the surface, has seen traffic almost cease.
Monday morning, August 29, about tity. jupanese aeroplanes appeared over' the ily, for, the first Times Actually, the townsfolk. were hot really seared, the attitude perhaps Doing best gauged from the remark a pfblewoman from Siaokan, Slookan we always sed to soy that while but. district might be. cone dered unsafe, the fal place to move 'About 120 badly-wounded people had reached the Tsaoshih hospital by the Saturday, and according to the "North-China' Daily News" correspondent, "few of the one to two thousand injured can have reached any other. Gangrene and starvation wilt have. taken hundreds. Such is the fate of one city of Chinat"
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