The Archive · 1940

Latest Figures on Attack

Chungking, Feb. 5.

Latest reports from Kunming on the bombing of the Yunnan railway last Thursday reveal that casualties, including the dead and injured, prob: ably number between 200 and 300. So tary itis stated, the number of per= sons known to have been killed ex-faceds 110, Particularly tragic was the news Jot the death of a French railway employee, his son and mother. The name of these persons has been with-[held so far. Eye-witnesses of the Jeatastrophe declare that apart from [those Killed or injured by bombs, many other casualties were caused by steam, fre, boiling water and land-

'AS trains on this line generally place first and second class coaches Yangtze Re-opening Not

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