The Archive · 1937

Second Flight of War Birds

Hardly had they disappeared, fifteen other Japanese machines, comprising eleven bombers and four pursuit planes, appeared from the south and followed the same procedure, bombing the south city. Five minutes later, the Chinese antiaircraft guns scored another direct hit, one Japanese bomber crashing in the morth area. The rest of the invaders then quickly disappeared in the direction of Hsiakwan, Nanking's Bund.

Mr, J. M. Hansen the Danish manager of the Texaco Ca. saw the entire raid from the top of a small hill adjoining the compound of the American Embassy,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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