Chungking, Oct. 1 A large number of Japanese craft in several groups bombed cities in Szechuen about noon today, Chengtu and Nanchwan being among the places raided. Although an air Faid -warning was sounded here at 10 hum. and Chinese pursuit planes took off, no raiding planes appeared. The clear" was sounded three and a half hours later.
Details of the bombing of Chengtu and Nanchwan are not yet available here. News of the raid on Chengtu did not come as a surprise. Some such action was generally expected to follow the announcement that Gen. and Mme Chiang Kai-shek are now In Chengtu.:
Reuter's correspondent tried to get [nto touch with Nanchwan by long-distance telephone, from Chungking this afternoon, but failed owing to damage to telephone lines. Unchwan Is southeast of Chungking, and is well-known for: the. Golden Buddha mountain, where the Generalissimo and Mme Chiang stayed a month og An unconfirmed report received at Chungking this afternoon states that Kweiyang, the capital of Kweichow province, was also bombed.—Reuter.
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