INTENSE BOMBING
CHUNGKING BATTERED WAVES OF JAP. PLANES (Reed. Aug. 12, 2 p.m.) CHUNGKING, Aug. 11. Four hundred Japanese planes participated in the most severe aerial, bombardment that Chungking has yet suffered. The raids lasted nine and a-half hours. The alarm was sounded at 4.10 a.m. after only a short lull from Sunday’s raids, which kept the populace underground for 14 hours. To-day’s attack was the culmination of a series of raids during the past four days, in which more than 3000 bombs have been dropped.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20631, 12 August 1941, Page 6
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