Ambitious Plans to Defend Szechuen City Chungking, Feb. 2.
With the air arms of the Japanese Army and Navy stretching far inland almost daily, precautions against aerial attacks are being taken in distant Chungking.
Preparedness is being taught the populace by air raid drills twice a week, on Wednesday and Saturday, when sirens are sounded at 9 pr.
Anti-aircraft guns have been placed at strategic points, and within ten minutes of the sounding of the alarm the gun-crews are in readiness' for action.
Chungking experienced its first air-raid scare on Sunday when what turned out to be a false alarm was sounded. Many Chinese tried to cross the Yangtze in sampans, and an overloaded boat, carrying about 20 persons, capsized, drowning: all the occupants.
Many dug-outs, public and- private, are being constructed in the solid rock on which Chungking IS built.
The Chungking Air Defence Command has an ambitious plan under consideration. It provides for the construction, as an air-raid refuge, of a two-mile long tunnel under Chungking, running from east to west,
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