The Archive · 1939

Kuling Residential Area Bombed

Foreigner Said to Have Been Wounded; Japanese Say Aid Given Guerillas Chungking, Jan. 18.

A foreigner was injured when two bombs landed in the vicinity of the American School at Kuling on Monday, when Japanese planes bombed the celebrated mountain resort, according to Chinese reports given great prominence in the vernacular press this morning.

The British consular and naval authorities here, however, are com-letely without confirmation of the ne Japanese planes, according to Chinese dispatches. made two raid: en Kuling on Monday, staging th: as Japanese troops made atta against the Chinese guerillas holding the resort.

Eleven bombers are stated to have participated in the first raid, in the course of which seven bombs are said to have been dropped in the vicinity of the library, with the result that a house was demolished.

An hour later, the accounts pro: ceed, five Japanese bombers appeared over Kuling and dropped more than ten bombs in the residential area, two of the missiles falling in the vicinity of the American School —Reuter.

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