The Archive · 1939

Sian Heavily Damaged Peiping. Oct

Vast patches of wreckage today dotted the milliary and industrial areas of Sian, capital of Shensi, after was subjected to eleven raids by Japanese Army aircraft in two days. aerial scouts reported here today.

'On Tuesday, the Japanese bombers concentrated their bombs upon the Lunghai railway, Central Army bat racks, foodstuffs and supply warehouses, munitions dumps and all tanks, while on Wednesday the attacks' Were directed against the Sian garrison headquarters, the Public Safety Bureau, the Provincial Gov. ernment offices, the Sian branch of the headquarters of the Communist Eighth Route Army, and the indus-lal zone.

More than 100 freight cars, assume bled at Sankiaochen, on the outskirts of the city, were also reduced to wreckage by the bombings, it was ted All Japanese bombers returned to their bases safely—Domei, Chinese Acrodromes Bombed

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