The Archive · 1939

British Building Hit By Bombs Japanese Raid Chengchow, Doing Heavy Damage

Chungking, Jan. 31.

Six Japanese aeroplanes bombed IChengehow on Jenuary 28, according to a semi-official Chinese dispatch which has just been received from Honan.

Twenty-four bombs, of which two were incendiary, were stated to have been dropped in the vicinity of the British-owned Yuchung Packing Company. The same dispatch alleged that the bombs damaged ihe building, on the roof of which a Union Jack was said to have been painted.

The British Consulate-General in Chungking is without any information on the alleged bombing.—Reuter.

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