Japanese Raiders Narrowly Miss British, German And French Property During Air Attack Chungking, Aug. 4. were hatily damaged and British and French consulates and the German Embassy the home of an American news-piper correspondent was demolished here by Japanese bombs last night during two Japanese raids on China's wartime capital. A score of foreigners, inclu ug high consular officials, narrow-escaped death when three demolition bombs landed in the centre of the consular area, Four Chinese were killed when one bomb destroyed a house between the British and French consulates and three Chinese died when another bomb hit outside the German consulate, The windows and doors of the British and French consulates were demolished and the plaster was knocked off the walls, "The German Embassy also was badly damaged.
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