The Archive · 1937

Kashing Bombed

Kashing, the important railway junction along the Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway, was bombed by Japanese military planes at ten o'clock yesterday morning. Several missiles landed on the railway station, inflicting considerable damage to a locomotive and three freight cars.

One motorman and four coolies who were working at the station were killed outright while another coolie was wounded. Earlier, at 945 o'clock, a squadron of four Japanese reconnoitring planes and four bombers appeared over Sungkiang station and landed oyer a dozen bombs at scattered points. No direct hit, however, was scored, and except for a few broken glass windows nothing was damaged.

The Minhsingchiao station farther along the line was also bombed by Japanese planes yesterday morning. Three or four bombs were dropped and. the station master's quarters was entirely glestroyed. The supply depot escaped With minor damage while a number of wires were shattered

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