300 Killed, 469 Wounded, 360
Houses Razed in Raids Hankow, Sept. 26.
Police, boy scouts, Red Cross and first aid units this morning continued, removing dead bodies, the dying and wounded from under heaps of debris caused by Japanese air raids during the last two days.
Up to last might, according to official figures released, 113 dead bodies had been discovered in Han-how and near 200 discovered in 469 people Were injured in.the two Hanyang. The figures reveal that
cities, 220 sustaining serious injuries and 249 slightly injured.
In the two cities a total of 360 Houses had been demolished com-
Churches, missions, hospitals and other social and religious institutions are never bombed, unless they are used by the Chinese troops for military purposes, the officer, as-erred. Residential areas inhabited Ly foreigners, foreign property and Chinese non-combatants are "never made targets of aerial bombardment," he added.
Moreover, he added, in order to preclude the possibility of orfers, Japanese planes operatè in sqüad-rons and not individually. This, he said, was demonstrated in the air raids on Nanking, Canton and other cities.
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