A storm of indignation has been in the Chinese press and in educational circles here with the re~ ceipt of Chinese reports stating that Japanese planes bombed Hunan and Tsinghua universities outside Changsha, capital of Hunan, yesterday.
This alleged action is characterized tus forming part of "a deliberate attempt to destroy China's cultural institutions."
"after destroying Chinese universities in the Shanghai, Tientsin, and Peiping arcus," says a typical newspaper comment, "the Japanese are now trying' to destroy the fow remaining, Chinese universities in the Twenly-seven Japanese bombers. dropped over 70 bombs on Hunan and Tsinghua universities, according to Chinese reports. Tsinghua Univer= ssily was. only, recently transferred from Peiping to Changsha.
The casualties so far known, the! reports add, comprise 30 persona killed and 70 others injured, library, a laboratory, science building and three demitones, includ {ng one for girls, are reported to Ihave been destroyed in the course of the raid—Reuter.
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