A terrific fire was started below the Yangtze River wall. The flames spread with the speed of a raging forest fire and destroyed a line of Chinese homes one-quarter of a mile long and thirty yards wide. The fire cut a swath' of destruction in the area fronting the tiver and immediately endangered the Canadian Mission Business Agency which houses the largest single foreign group in Chungking.
The bombers concentrated on the area extending from the tip of the Reninsula, where the Kialing and Yangtze meet, through the section to ihe banking area.
The concussion from the bombs smashed windows, cracked doors and ceilings and caused plaster to fail in the bullings occupied by the Canadian Mission Business Agency. The office of the United Press was damaged.
"Most of the foreigners having offices or staying here immediately started evacuating their belonging because of the threat of fire, 'A modern Chinese dire-float, however, rushed to the scene and after an hour of battling with the flames, the firemen succeeded in quenching the blaze, The fire was stopped largely because of the heavy brick wall of a small Buddhist temple. The same wall frst proved its efficacy as a natural fire curtain in 1991 when it saved the lower end of the city from one of the most destructive fires in history.
Bombs struck Lungmenhao on the south bank of the Yangtze - where most of Chungkings foreign colony had moved after the terrible bombing of May 4.
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