Chungking, Sept. 18.
Sixty-eight Japanese aircraft in four groups raided Chungking yesterday noon, states an official communique, The first group consisted of 24 bombers, the second nine, the third 17 and the fourth 18. The raiders met with heavy anti-aircraft fire.
After dropping bombs to the South of Chungking the raiders returned to their base fo the east. A southern hot-springs resort and a village on the south bank of the bank of the Yangtze river suffered badly in yesterdays bombing. Many houses pud shops were set on fire.
Eye-witnesses on the south bank of the Yangtze state that yesterday six Japanese aircraft also dive-bombed: bu a point on the northern bank of the e to the west of Chungking.—Reuter.
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