The Archive · 1938

Chengchow Damaged

Vatican City, June 7, Further details of damage caused the Italian Mission in. Chengchow during a Japanese alr raid last month. are given today in the "Osservatore Romano", semi-oficial news organ or the Papal City.

The cathedral and the old missiontary church of the mission were completely destroyed, while the Archbishop's residence and the missionaries' houses were seriously damaged, this newspaper says.

However, it adds that no serious casualties occurred among' the per-Jsonnel, because special shelters saved {hem from the Japanese missiles

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