Word: wongsha
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...alarms, and the huge Fung Keng rubber plant. Scores of bombs, aimed at the Pearl River bridge, connecting the city with the industrial island suburb of Honam, fell along the waterfront, smashing sampans into wet and bloody splinters. Incendiary bombs plumped in Standard Oil storage tanks near the main Wongsha rail station, sent a 16-car train and the station roaring up in flames. The mammoth Sun Yat-sen Memorial Auditorium
...Japanese bombers over Canton where in a series of raids they killed 1,000 persons, wounded 1,500, destroyed the Wongsha Railroad Station, and demolished an entire train in an effort to disrupt China's major munitions route...
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