Four nurses were killed and several doctors and members of the staff wounded, when Japanese aircraft bombed the Central Hospital, just outside the south gate of Kweiyang, capital of Kweichow, on May 1, it is anfiounced here today. The funeral fs taking place today.
Eight machines, it is stated, took part in the raid, scoring two direct hits on the hospital. The dormitory, dining-room and operation-room were demolished.
Among the four nurses killed is the head nurse, Miss Wang Chung-hua, who formerly served in the Central Hospital at Nanking.
More than 100 patients, however, were successfully evacuated before the bombing occurred.—Reuter.
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