Chungking, Jan. 3.
Stx Japanese "aeroplanes bombed Chengchow on January 28, according toa. semi-official Chinese dispatch which hax Just been received from Honan. fenty-four bombs, of which two were incendiary, were stated to have been dropped in the vicinily of the British-owned Yur chung Packing Company, The same spate alleged that the bombs dam-ayed the building, on the roof of Which 2 Union Jack was said to have been painted.
The British Consulate-General in Chungking is without any information on the alleged bombing.—Reuter. and personal items of value to the owners, the reply indicated that baggage, as on the previous evacuntion, might be brought along.
"The Japanese had had no indication if bed-ridden persons could be brought out, but believed that arrangements could be made. Several hypothetical questions remained unanswered by the spokesmen.
'What guarantee would the evacuees have that their properly which was marked with foreign flags would remain undamaged, asked another correspondent. 'The spokesmen had no knowledge' what the guerillas—there were four or 5,000 Chinese troops halfway up the hill—would do, but the Japanese would try to avoid Jdamaging such property, even. when bombing. 'They had information that the guerillas had used untenanted foreign property as barracks, At least the foreigners' lives would be spared if they evacuated, he con-eluded,
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