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Hankow Air Raid JAPANES
Devastation
Hanków, To-day.
AFRAID TERROR
Yesterday's aerial bombardment was the most ser-
Despite the ious suffered by Hankow since the outbreak of
Proclamation; the hostilities. TRANS-OCEAN OBSERVED VARIOUS PHASES OF THE BOM Shanghai 2M BARDMENT FROM THE ROOF OF ONE OF THE HIGHEST aiming to sta spread terrori BUILDINGS IN THE CENTRE OF THE CITY. THE FIRST shed in the I SQUADRON OF RAIDERS, NINE PLANES, APPEARED ment for mon OVER WUCHANG SHORTLY AFTER A NUMBER OF anese are a CHINESE PLANES HAD LANDED AT HANKOW AERO- stronger actio DROME AND DROPPED 24 BOMBS.
NO EFFECT
approach of First Anniver Immediately afterwards, a second least 500 persons were killed.
hai Fighting. Japanese squadron which likewise
The material damage caused by. A statemen numbered nine planes bombed Hanyang. A third aquadron attack-the bombardment is comparatively the Municipal ed the aerodrome dropping a larg-insignificant, however, since the failure to seiz bombs failed to hit any mili-prit” in the & er number of bombs.
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While the smoke resulting from tary objective, although the aim of issued by the the bombs dropped on Wuchang the raiders may have been the de Committee of at dents' Corpor had vanished a few minutes after struction of Chinese arsenal
The Japa the bombardment, which ap- Hanyang.
The bombs, if aimed at the ar- that a deman peared to indicate that the bombs had failed to do serious damage, senal, missed their target, falling measures by dense columns of smoke rising at into the Han River or on the build-lice against t various points in Hanyang showed ings in the residential quarter. Two conveyed to that the exploding bombs had set bombs hit and destroyed a number sul-General b fire to a number of buildings. of junks in the Han River while the Corpora The bombs dropped on the aero-other bombs struck the wooden transmission drome started several conflagra- huts inhabited by the poorest sec- The alleged tions and one of them apparently tion starting numerous conflagra-Municipal Po the statemen registered a direct hit on one of tions.
ing" and to tho Chinese planes parked at the aerodrome. A tour through the The largest number of bombs responsible city immediately after the raid was was dropped over Wuchang, how-Reuter. mere to ascertain the extent of the ever. The objective was Chinese damage caused by the bombard-headquarters near the Railway line ment.
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WUCHANG BRUNT
at the boundary of the city. Since CANTON
access to this part of the city is
DEM
GREAT PANIC A The bombardment had obviously strictly forbidden, it is impossible caused a great panic among the to state with certainty the extent Chinese population since the Han of the damage caused by the bom River which separates Hankow bardment. It appears, however, from Hanyang was crowded with that the headquarters buildings The Kwang junks in which panic-stricken were not directly hit by the bombs: composed of: people were trying to flee down- Although the Chinese anti-air-women's org river.
craft batteries took the Japanese the province,
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Five bombs had exploded direct-planes under fire when the latter to the Inter ly in the centre of the overcrowd-passed over the centre of the town paign Confer ed Hanyang quarter completely de-they failed to score any hits. nouncing the molishing a large number of build-It is officially stated, however, raids in Chin ings. Athough the exact number of that three Japanese planes were pealing for th victims is not yet known, it is es- shot down outside the city-Trans-measures to timated that in Hanyang alone at Ocean.
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