HUNAN nas come in for some pretty severe bombing recently, Changteh and Taoyuan being visited by Japanese planes on December 29. Whilst previous air-raids on those cities usually occurred in the morning, this particular visit by the Japanese bombers was made shortly after 2 o'clock on the afternoon of December 29.
During the forenoon an alarm had been sounded and the populace had just returned to their homes from the near by country side, when the second alarm was given and soon. afterwards, twelve bombers appeared over the city and bombs fell in rapid succession in 32 different places A few bombs also fell outside the East and North gates. The whole attack was over in less than twenty minutes and shortly afterwards the injured were taken to the Presbyterian Hospital outside the East gate. Whilst the number of dead was 200, there were over 1,000 injured.
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