Chungking, May 4.
Chungking was raided by Japanese planes today, for the second day in succession, causing casualties unofficially estimated at between 800 and 1,000. It is officially announced 28 Japanese bombers participated in today's raid, coming in two groups of 18 each and dropping bombs on ten separate places. One Japanese bomber, it is claimed, was shot down. The announcement says:
"The Japanese planes apparently concentrated on certain military establishment which were moved some time ago, but owing to their poor marksmanship bombs hit surrounding houses, killing and wounding hundreds of civilians."
Chungking presented a strange picture tonight. One half of the city was in total darkness. There was no electric light, no telephone service, and thousands of homeless persons slept on the pavements.
Lighted candles burned at the doors of houses, thus telling that at least one of the inmates had been killed. Some bodies rested in coffins inside houses, while others lay on the pavements, covered with mats,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.