Chungking, May 16.
The Japanese bombings of Chungking on May 3, 4, and 12, resulted in 10,000 casualties, declared a spokesman of the National Relief Commission at this afternoon's press conference. The raid on the north bank of the Chialing River on May 12, he said, resulted in 30 persons being killed and 150 wounded.
Declaring that the Japanese bomibgs were "definitely not directed against military establishments or anti-aircraft batteries," the spokesman emphasised that the bombings would not weaken the Chinese determination to resist, nor frighten them into submission.
Seven camps, he went on, were being established by the Government to provide food and shelter for refugees, who would be transported to the interior for land reclamation. The Government, he said, would allot them land and grant them loans.
They were expected, he continued, to be self-supporting within three months. For this purpose, he declared, the Government was appro-printing $1,000,000, but this amount might be increased to $3,000,000 if
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