Four News Agencies are Damaged in Raids Nanking, Sept, 26, After an extremely hectic day, during which the capital was subjected to four air raids, the populace were robbed of much needed sleep when sirens aroused the entire city at 245 this morning. Shivering in their night clothes, people dashed to dugouts while a wind of near-typhoon velocity howled, No Japanese planes, however, appeared, and an hour later, with the sounding of the s"all-clear," people hurried back to the warmth of their beds, In yesterday's raids a bomb landed between the Ministry of Railway and the Ministry of War, only 400 yards from the British Embassy, Sailors aboard the British Bee and Gnat, had a ringside view of the bombings of the power plant at Hsiakwan, as the warships were anchored within 200 yards. 7 Chinese official estimate of yesterday's casualties is 40 killed and 80 wounded.
The Central News Agency announces that its services will be continued despite the complete demob" tion of its offices, 'The power and water supply, which was interrupted yesterday when both. plants were damaged, was restored throughout the city this morning, Both the offices of the National' est of escapes, two heavy each probably wei 500. grammes, just missing it and creating huge craters in the ground, Borcic, the League health expert, had a full view of the destruction.
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