Chungkings populace, however, is displaying no outward signs of weariness. All shops and restaurants open for business immediately after the all-dar signal has been sounded. It is amusing to observe that probably "no glass is to be found in windows, all being shattered by bomb explosions, and no effort is made to replace them because the mew ones would only be shattered again the following day.
Not, many bombs were dropped on the south bank of the Yangise River yesterday afternoon: and no foreign property was damaged; only a few bombo landed. in the vicinity of the Asiatic Petroleum installation, Yesterday sedan chair carriers charged $25 for a single trip on the south bank to the Second Range, while the minimum charge for a ricksha is now $1 even for short distances—Reuter.
Strongholds on Railway Bombed Aug. 12. Sel rea iru ington am lway were subjected to intensive bombing yesterday by a Japanese naval flying squadron, the press section of the Japanese Central China Seas Fleet announced yesterday afternoon.
At Iyang a west-bound train fully loaded with war supplies was blown up by the Japanese raiders which later machine-gunned and set fire to the freight cars and military supplies piled high at the railway, station, the announcement added.
Three transport vessels were bombed by the Japanese Navy raiders at a ferry junction south of Yingtan, it was also announced.
Fourteen freight cars were destroy. ed by the Japanese raiders at Kwang, yin.
During this time another cup of Japanese naval aircraft yesterday reconnoitred and raided Chichow, Tungling and Tsingyang on the Yangtze River in Central Anhwei, the announcement concluded.—Dome:
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