Eleven Children Among Many Victims in Wuchang Hankow, Jan. 7. The bombardment of Hankow and Wuchang by Japanese planes at noon yesterday has unfortunately claimed a far greater number of victims than bad originally been believed.
According to the latest information, 56 persons, including eleven children, were killed at Wuchang alone, while 64 people were more or less seriously injured. Some thirty buildings were completely destroyed by bombs. A bomb aimed at the southern railway station at Wuchang killed a Chinese police constable and a number of civilians, but failed to do any damage to the station building or the tracks.
The high death toll in Wuchang is due to the fact that the aerodrome at Wuchang, which apparently was one of the chief objects of the raiders, is in close proximity to a densely populated Chinese residential quarter.—Trans-Ocean.
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