Nanking, July 18. Flying into the interior of China, Japanese military planes to-day made three separate attacks on Chinese trains at various points on the Peiping-Hankow Railway Immediately upon receipt of report of this wanton action of the Japanese, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs lodged a strong protest with the Japanese Embassy here.
At 11.20 o'clock this morning, two Japanese planes, flying over Changhochiao in Honan, sprayed a passing train with machine gun fire. Two passengers were killed and others injured. A similar outrage occurred, at noon to-day at Kwanchuangtsan in Hopei when a south-ward bound passenger train from Paoting was attacked by machine gun fire from Japanese planes, resulting in over ten casualties, A third raid by Japanese from the air occurred at 12.30 o'clock this afternoon in the vicinity of Yvanszehsien in Hopei. Over ten persons aboard a passing train were killed or wounded.—
Central News.
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