the raiders were especially da After their leader had dropped fur several Japanese machines came down dropping bombs.
Chungking shortly before 9 p.m. when, it was learned that another group of 27 Japanese bombers had passe Chungking, heading westward in tke direction of Chengtu. capital of Szechuen province, 'A long distance telephone message from Chengtu, received at 9.10 Feported that Chengtu was bonibed. The air raid on Chengtu will inevitably cause heavy casualties, though details of the bombing are not available.
Tt was Learned that the preseat population of Chengtu reached. 3,000, 000 after the evacuation of the Chungking populace. Furthermore, no dugouts can be made in Chengtu as water found only three feet underground and there hills inside the city, Chungking were in a lumber yatd fon the Yangtze front, where there were over 100 casualties, At midnight, Reuter's correspondent, looking over the Jumber yard from the top of a hill, saw rescue workers, stretcher bearers and first-id units, carrying torches in hand, moving in and out, carrying th. wounded up the hill from the river front in pitch darkness, presenting weird sight.
Touring the river front this morn-Ing, Reuter's correspondent counted 20 dead bodies, many of which had heads, arms or legs blown off, lying grotesquely on the sand bank, awaite Ing banal.
When the alarm was sounded, many coolies in the lumber yard crawled underneath lumber piles, thinking hey_ would be sate there. "One bomb, wever, landed ten feet away from the pile: white nether made & dive hit, killing 20 coolies underneath the lumber.
This morning, there was still one dead body, underneath & pile of hum ber, which had not yet been ex-
Many' bombs landed on the south bank of the Yangtze River, opposite Chungking, near a point where the Yangtze and Chiatin Rivers meet. The American Embassy and "also many foreign firms are at present located on the south bank.
Very few incendiary bombs were used by the Japanese in the raid, the majority of the missiles used being explosive bombs," Three incendiary bombs, however, landed on the Yana tze River, burning In the water for several seconds, One bomb landed on the slope of a hill, in the middle of a field of Tomatoes, making a huge crater and uprooting every tomato within a radius of 50 feet.
Two bombs landed further up, on 4 road, killing ten persons and depolishing a motor car.
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