ing on pavements as a res night's Japanese air raid night attack this year—which started a blaze which destroyed one square mile of dwellings of poor people and shops in the valley near the west gate of Chungking.
Besides the downtown district and the western suburbs, bombs were also dropped last night on the south bank of the Yangtze, narrowly miseing the American and Italian embassies. They landed in the valley just below the Embassy buildings.
Bombs also fell just below Consular one, within 200 yards of the British Embassy. which. however not hit.
Many people died of suffocation in a dugout downtown the populace was forced to remain inside the shelter for nearly five hours, The Japanese attacked in three waves at 7.20 pin. 815 and 10.30. Among buildings damaged Reuter office. Reuter.
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