181
ate of Raid
No. of Planes
Times of Raid No. of
involved
Bombs dropped
Raids by Japanese Air-craft on the Chinese Section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway,
from 1st November 1937 to 31st December 1937.
Location of Raid
Damage to Aailway property.
Remarks
1. 11. 37
3
07.15 hours
Km. 1092
One rail slightly damaged
3
14.30
14
8
Kil.
90 Km. 98
3 pairs of rails slightly
damaged.
No direct hit.
do.
2. 11. 37
3
07.15 hours
7
Ku. 1092, Km.. 113
כא
3
14.00
6
Km. 81%
3. 11. 37
3
08.10 hours
3
Km. 120/3
כא
14.45
it
7
Kms. 116, 117/6, 119/12,
120/8.
4. 11. 37
3
3
09.30 hours
14.30
6
Kins. 98 to 105
#1
6
Kas. 111/6, 116/1
6. 11. 37
09.00 hours
6
Km. 1052, Km. 110.
3
15.00
11
Kin.95, Km. 108/6
7. 11. 37
3
08.00 hours
9
Km.
111/7 114/5, Km. 119/6, Ka. 120/10
18. 11. 37
3
08.30 hours
6
Kus, 113
-
120
19. 11. 37
09.00 hours
4
Kins. 113 119
24. 11. 37
8
10.50 hours
12
Tai Sha Tou Station
25. 11. 37
6
12.50 hours
11
to 13.50 hours
26. 11. 37
12.30 hours
26
Kin 95 to Ka. 110.
27. 11. 37
10
6
13.00 hours
4
Kin. 112 to Km. 116.
Telephone and tablet wires
down.
Track and telegraph wires
slightly damaged.
2 telegraph poles destroyed
1 pair of rails sligh tly damaged. Telegraph wires down.
4 rails badly damaged.
4 pairs of rails damaged and
14 sleepers destroyed. Tele graph wires down.
100 lin. ft. of track slightly damaged. Ganghut destroyed.
Nil
1 rail and 5 sleepers damaged
No direct hit.
do.
No direct hit.
do.
Indirect hit. Traffic suspended for 1 day. Repairs completed 01.00 hours on 5.11.37.
No direct hit.
No direct hit.
Nil
A rails and 8 sleepers
destroyed.
Nil
Indirect hit.
28. 11. 37
11.00 hours
4
Km.53, Ku.65%, Km.81,
Km. 92.
Km.112/9, K. 109/13.
Pier of Bridge 119 sheared off and bridge slightly damaged.
2 rails damaged also ballast wall of Bridge No.172.
Road bed and 500 feet of track seriously damaged at Km.112. South abutment of Bridge No.177 completely demolished and last span of bridge dropped into river; also 500 ft. of track seriously damaged.
100 ft. of track damaged; 2nd pier of Bridge No.172 damaged, telegraph and telephone wires damaged.
2 Railway carpenters killed by
splinters.
Direct hit.
few hours.
Traffic resumed in a
No direct hit. Traffic resumed
in a few hours.
2 direct hits.
Indirect hits.
Traffic suspended.
Traffic was resume â
at 23.00 hours on 30.11.37.
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