Chungking, Dec. 6.
Forty thousand, Chinese civilian casualties, including 20,000 persons killed, are the result, of Japanese air raids in 16 Chinese provinces during the seven months between January and July of this year, according to figures just released by the Chinese Aeronautical Affairs n.
Düring the period; it is stated, Sapanese aircraft made 1,276 raids ahd dropped 32,000 bombs.
A total of 64,000 houses are said to have been destroyed, 6,000 others damaged, junks blown to bits and 95 motor-cars wrecked.
The heaviest ctisualties occurred in the month of May, as a result of Japanese bombings of Chungking on May 3 ard 4. It is estimated 14,000 people were killed and wounded in May.
According to a report of the Chinese National Relief Commissioni; casiialti¢s in the bombing of Chiting-king on May 4 alone with 4,572 persons killed and 3,687 wounded. Houses destroyed in the capital on May 3 totalled 900, while on. the following day 1,000 hotisés were demalihan by bombing.
wangtling is said to be the most severely bombed of all the provinces, During the seven-month period it suffered 311 raids—Domei.
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