The Archive · 1938

Loyang Attacked Hankow, Suly 5

Great damage was wrought Loyang, "Honan, yesterday morning when eleven Japanese heavy bombers Uropped 135 bombs on the lly, ace cording to the Loyang correspondent the Central News Agency.

So far as is known, he says, 200 houses" were destroyed, and many copie killed and wounded.

Four bombs are said to have landed in a prison, killing and wounding over 40 of its inmates.

'The Japanese aeroplanes, the correspondent adds, also scattered pamphets warning the populace 0 evacuate the 'Normally, Loyang ha' a population of 90,000 people. After yesterday's bombing, however, nearly 10,000 people have fled the city—Reuter.

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