The Archive · 1940

Serious Damage

Chungking, Oct. 15.

cultural Institutions ly Kun ike. the South-West Joint University, Tsinghua University, Kua-han Teachers College and) Yunnan University suffered serious damage when Japanese aircraft bombed Kun~ ming on October 13, according to a detailed Chinese report from Kun ming.

Tone scouting machine, itis stated, reconnoitred above the Yunnan cities early that morning after nese aircraft appeared over Kun of the city with heavy machine-gun five. Early that afternoon 23 bombers fercorted by a scouting—aeroplane reached Kunming and bombed the western outskirts as well rth-western district of Kune ming city. Some bombs were also dropped in the south of the city.

estimated that over 100 buildin were destroyed in the raid.—Reuter.

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