JAPANESE RAID
ON EMPEROR'S BIRTHDAY
SUBURB OF HANKOW BOMBED
20 PLANES LOST
(United Press Association—By Electric
Telegraph—Copyright.)
(Received April 30, 10.30 a.m.)
HANKOW, April 29,
Nearly a thousand were killed and wounded in Hanyang, a suburb of Hankow, in a Japanese air raid, which was staged to mark the Japanese Emperor's birthday. The Chinese anticipated the raid, which culminated in a spectacular air battle between 50 Chinese and 39 Japanese planes. The Chinese lost three planes and the Japanese 20. The air raiders' objective was Hanyang Arsenal, the biggest in China, but it entirely escaped damage. The populace cheered the fall of flaming Japanese planes, but owing to the release of a chain of bombs right across the city, a half-mile section full of dead and wounded is a scene of mourning. Houses collapsed like' cards, burying the occupants under tons of debris. Thirty charred and unidentifiable bpdies were recoveredTrom a single shop.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 100, 30 April 1938, Page 9
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