Most- of the"etty's- habitants. still feeling^the "nervous strain of the previous two "aerial conflicts, were now-in: thejr-homes and shops warming themselves by the evening fires not knowing what might happen on the morrow, but wrapped in nameless reverie comforted themselves "With the thought that, at least, for that-day, all anxiety could be laid aside.
Suddenly the air-raid alarm began io shriek out its warning notes. Consternation and fear gripped the populous. "A perfect babble of voices, half'cries and half groans, arose from la- rushing mass of frightened humanity who, leaving their homies, rushed "out into the night to find seer. Most'of the people had not retchea their hiding places, but were still in flight when the planes-arrived and panic stricken they hid inf every nook and corner. The full moon's beams shining on the placid surface of, the Willow River which skirts Liuchow on three sides presented the city in the centre of a horse shoe of silver. easily.seen from the "air. Presently flashes of flame from bursting shells dotted the city as scores of bombs were poured on buildings not yet wrecked. from previous bombings.
Aerial activity was again inten-sifed today -when 82 planes carried out. numerous reconnaissance flights over the eastern. half. of the province. It was scarcely "daylight when the first' squadron of 24-planes diving in three groups, "appeared. Kyen and "Liuchów- were again heavily' bombed, the latter. suffering severely. In the morning 24 planes flying in three groups visited the city and each took turns in dropping bombs.
Again in the late afternoon nine planes after bombing Kweilin visited Liuchow and released the remainder of their bombs. Even the gathering of the evening shadows did mot prevent the planes from carrying on their work, and it was an hour later before the last "AN clear" signal had sounded, and weary people returned home ior their evening rice.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.