Chungking, June 13.
More than 200 casualties, it estimated, were caused when Japan~ ese alreratt raided Chungking proper fat noon yesterday, badly demolish. ing many streets in different dis~
The latest check-up reveals that bombs were dropped on the south bank of she Yangtze River, below the Canadian Mission Hospital, "The Japanese, it is learned, ren cently warned " foreign Embassies and Legations here, "stating that they were not safe, but no warn. ing was sent to the United States' Embassy, The latter was, however, notified that the area in the vicinity of installations of the Standard Oil Company on the south bank of the river, opposite the commercial ait-field," was "not safe,"—Reuter, USS. Property Damaged "Private telegraphic alviecs me form us that the property of the American Bible Society in Chung king was seriously damaged yesterday's bombing raid June 12) Over that city. The premises are on Hwa' Kiai in the heart of the business section," states an official of the China Bible House Shanghai.
"IN is reported that the Seventh Day Adventist Church (which also. is American property), directly across the street, was completely demolished,"
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