chungking, Oct. 5.
Chungking was subjected to an intensive air raid by Japacese bomber" between midnight and dawn this morning. The attack was carried onl by 80 Japazese planes, flying in five groups.
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in, the populace was kept in dugouts all night. Hitherto, ne ial estimate of damage and casualties is available.
Four groups of raiders first dropped missiles on the eastern outskirts of and. then bombed the kitts. The majority of bombs dropped in the second attack landed along the Chungking-Chengtu highway.
A fifth group of planes, after bombing the Peipai hot spring, a resort 20 miles north of Chungking, returned to the city just before dawn, and again bombed the western outskirts, The "all-clear" was sounded soon efter dawn, as the last raider flew out of sight.
The air said alarm was again sounded this morning at 10 o'clock when Japanese planes were sighted heading up river. The "all-clear" was given at 1120 a.m. when the Japanese planes failed to approach Chungking.—Reuter.
Senator Connolly urged Congress to make appropriations sufficient to gi the United States an "unbeatable" two-ocean Navy and to increase the American Army to authorized strength. He also urged augmenting the nation's anti-aircraft defences.
The only answer the United States can make to aggressors, he said, is to say in effect: "We want no war with you, We want no quarrel with you. But if you assail us, and attack ur inst ions here by the infiltration among our people of your spies and emissaries, we will protect ourselves by all means at our command,"
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