JAPANESE RAID
5000 Made Homeless (Received August 25, 9 p.m.) CHUNGKING, August 24. Five thousand persons were rendered homeless and 500 houses were destroyed in yesterday's Japanese raid on the south bank of the Yangtse. NEW YORK. August 23. Tiie Chungking correspondent of the Associated Press reports that tiie Japanese have resumed heavy bombing of Hie city. Tiie Government is considering Hie compulsory evacuation of civilians, excep’ liitrli ollieinls and (hose diree’ly serv'ng war needs. Vobvitarv departures have speeded up. Th? reconstruction of destroyed homes and shops is forbidden. (illicial relief workers in Chungking said ill,nt 3k Japanese raids here this year had killed 2051 civilians, wounded 3179, and destroyed 17.000 houses and shacks.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 284, 26 August 1940, Page 8
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