Chungking, May 16.
The Japanese bombings of Chungking on May 3, 4, and 12, resulted in 10,000 casualties, declared a spokes man of the National Relief Commission at this afternoon's press con= ference. The raid on the north bank of the Chialing River on May 12, he said, resulted" in. 30 persons being, killed and 180 wounded:
Declaring that the Japanese bomb-"definitely not direeed itary establishments oF i-aircraft batteries," the spokesman emphasised that the bombings would not weaken the Chinese determina to resist, nor frighten them into 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-rioting $1,000,000, but this amount might be increased to $3,000,000 if}
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