Hongkong, Sept. 7.
Japanese air raids had caused so much damage to the Central Brond-casting Station at Chungking that could no longer be operated, accord ing to a message from the Central Communications Company.
'Japanese bombers raided the national capital August 28 and' September 3. Gen. Chiang Kal-shole had decided to set up a new radio station immediately, the message sald.—Domei, Chinese Official Dies in Raid Driven om Chungking, Sept, 10.
Japanese scouting planes,—which headed this morning' up-river for Chungking apparently on a reconalssance fight, were driven back Chinese pursuits, As soon as the nows was received that Japanese aircraft had been sighted on their way to the capital, Chinese fighting planes took off from the airfield to intercept the raiders, which, it Is claimed, were driven away. No alarm was sounded in Japanese Planes Bomb Arsenal Shanghai, Sept. 11.
Japanese naval bombing planes severely damaged an arsenal located east of Chuchow, 40 kilometres. south of Changsha, in a raid on Saturday, according to a communique Issued by the headquarters of the' Japanese China Seas Fleet yesterday Another squadron of naval planes bombarded boats on the Kan River in the vicinities of Changshuchen, Sinkan and Siakiang, sinking nine vessels of the 200-ton class, the statement said. A large number of trucks and garages in the Tuehu and Lien-hwa districts south of Antu were Chungking, Sept, 5.
Mr. Yang Jen-tien, a member of the Control Yuan, died yesterday as 4 result of injuries sustained in the Japanese it-raid on Chungking Ver that morning. He was'00 years old, He was injured at the bombing which took place at 230 am, and was taken immediately to the Muni ipal Hospital, where he died at 9.00
Mr. Yang Jen-tien was a native of Lantien, in Shensi province.
'A miraculous escape of a tobacco merchant was reported. A bomb said to have fallen at the merchant fect but failed to explode, So moved was the merchant by his escape from apparently certain death, that he immediately distributed all, the money he carried at the time—totalling over $1.000—among refugees.
One relief unit reported yesterday morning that It had handled 60 cases of Injured persons—Reuter.
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