Hongkong, Feb. 13.
Trafüc on the Yunnan Railway, vital supply route of the Chungking regime, was completely paralyzed as a result of Japanese bombing on January 31, à belated Chinese press message reaching here today from Hanoi said.
Passenger traffic on the railway, which had been barely maintained by a change of cars at damaged points since the beginning of January, has been entirely suspended following the Japanese mass air raid, the dispatch said.
During the spectacular mass raid, more than 500 bombs were reported to have been L A tunnel between Paichai and Wantang in the south-eastern part of Yunnan province was most severely damaged.
Tt was estimated that the repair work of the shattered tunnel will take at least one month, the reports added. Mr. Chiang Kia-ngan, Minister of Communications in Chungking, narrowly escaped injury by taking a train for Hanoi from Yunnan-fu'on the previous day.
Numerous travellers have been forced to remain at Haiphong and Hanoi due to the complete suspension of the Yunnan Railway, while a large quantity of commodities are being held at Saigon and Haiphong,|A W Robs: the dispatch stated.
Among those being held up is a party of Chinese youths from Hongkong which left the British colony for Chungking last month to present 7 a sword to Gen. Chiang Kai-shek as a token of homage.—Domei.
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