The Archive · 1938

Wenchow Bombed by Aeroplanes

Six Raiders Spare City But Wreck Aviation Field Front Oun Ow Consssroxent Wenchow, Feb. 26, To-day, at lest the city has received Its first little taste of air bombing. Siren warnings were heard at intervals since the commencement of hos-Ailities, though few, if any, since Christmas. Then three days ago] there were two warnings in the one @ay, three the next and again this morning three, the last one introducing the bombih One is fervently glad not to have to report any of the ghastly horrors that the inhabitants have learned to expect as the normal result of modern bombing. The six raiders confined their attentions entirely to the airfield outside the south gate, dripping 48 bombs on the feld itself, and It was not the fault of the airmen that a man and his daughter belonging to. a. neighbouring farmhouse were too stared to remain under cover, and so were killed. Three are said to have been wounded by flying fragments,

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