Sian English Baptist Premises Damaged by Fire; Meeting Hall Destroyed Sian, Apr. 2.
NOTHER foreign mission property was bombed in Sian today, when the meeting hall of the English Baptist Mission was destroyed during a raid, in which seven planes dropped more than 50 bombs in the heart of the city.
Two of the bombs were of the incendiary type, and they: started fires which were only extinguished with difficulty.
Casualties totalled six killed and nine wounded. The low number of casualties may be attributed to the fact that the populace is now in the habit of leaving the city during the early part of the day.
The Drum Tower, which is 'a prominent landmark, was also hit, while the offices of the local daily newspaper were destroyed. The business quarter suffered much material damage.—Reuter, Sian Bombed Again A Japanese Army Air Base, Apr. 4.
Japanese army, planes raided Sian, focal point of Chinese military activities in Shensi, yesterday morning and dropped heavy bombs on important military establishments, causing Severe damage, a spokesman at army air base'sald today.
Another army alr unit bombed Chinese army positions at_Wuhsiang and Tsinhsien In central Shansi and inflicted heavy damage on them, the officer stated.—Domel, 100,000 Chinese Said Defeated Wuning, Apr. 10, Japanese sentries patrolling the lines on the outskirts of this occu~ pled city last Friday were amazed fat the sight of a long column of bewhiskered, "grimy, sunburned sol diers "and." booty-laden oxen and donkeys plodding into Wuning from Another U.S. Protest Over Bombing Peiping, Apr. 4. For the fourth time within a fortnight, the United States Embassy' today protested to the Japanese authorities against the bombing of American property in China by Japanese war planes. The protest this time referred to the bombing of the American Catholic Mission at Loting on February 25, when the building was badly damaged, and an American father Rushing out to meet their unknown comrades, garrison offers learned that they belonged to the Waka-matsu Delachment—famed for its valour at Hankow-Arekking into Wuning after campaigning for twelve days in the Kiuling "Mountains and defeating 100,000 Chinese troops.
Disclosure today of the exploits of this "Alpine detachment," which tramped 170 kin. on mountain trails s=many so hazardous that lives often depended on a few inches of earth and the sure feet of stolid donkeys "gave the Wakamatsu Detachment the distinction of having taken part in one of the most spectacular manquvees of the entire campaign south of the Siu River, Starting its operations at Loki March 20, the detachment crossed
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