Chungking, Mar. 8.
Thirty Japanese heavy bombers in four squadrons yesterday roided Chinese cities in Kansu,—Ninghsia, and Shensi provinces, according to Chinese dispatches received here. Fifteen raiders are said to have dropped over eighty bombs on the city Of Pingliang, east of Lanchow, and also to have distributed pamphlets, Three other Japanese "planes are claimed to have dropned over thirty bombs on the city of Ninghsia, where only one day before, on March 6. Tapanese aeroplanes had dropped ever 100 Bombs, resulting in" 300 casualties.
The remaining twelve raiders bombed and machine-gunned Yungehong and Wuwel, in Kansu province, these dispatches revealed.
Chinese pursuit planes, added the reports, took off from Lanchow to be ready to engage the raiders, but the Tapanese did "not attempt to bomb
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