After only an hour's respite, Nanking was visited again at noon when more than ten Japanese planes staged a second raid. They came from the north-east and, when they reached a point above Pukow, circled ionnd in single file and, power diving, dropped bombs one after the other, probably aiming at the Tientsin-Pukow railway. They then zoomed up and disappeared towards ihe north-east. Ten minutes after the conclusion of the second raid the alarm was again sounded, but it proved to be false, According to officials of the French Consulate, four bombs, weighing 500 lb, each, landed during Saturday's raids within a hundred yards all around the Consulate. This is the on the railway workshops and, it is believed, a number of railway workers were blown up, while huge clouds of black smoke were seen to rise because of the oil in the shops.
For the first time to-day, a number of spent machine-gun bullets were picked up in Shameen, Reuters correspondent found it most difficult to reach the scene of to-day's bombings and personally to inspect the damage done as, apart from the difficulty of leaving and returning to Shameen, the Chinese police placed a strong cordon around the vicinity of the affected area.
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