FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1927.
THE CHINA MAIL,
WHEN CANTON WENT
CANTON WENT RED: LAST SUNDAY'S HAPPENINGS.
On Sunday last, December 11, the city of Canton was seized by Communists who drove what few Government (Ironside) troops there were there from the capital. Many people, as the pictures below show, were killed in the street fighting, incendiarism was rife, and there was much looting. For two days the "Red" held sway, but when opposed by a moderately sized force of Government soldiery, fled.
Photo by Wah Tere Yat Po.
A whole black of buildings gulted at Taipingsha
In the city.
Photo by Wah Taze Yat Po.
Smoke coming, through the windows of the
Central Bank.
Photo by Wah Taze Yat Po.
Photo by Kwong Kuni Co.
Corpses piled up in a road leading to the suburbs.
Photo by Kwang Kwui Co.
Truckloads of corpses of both loyalists and Communists being wheeled away from the city for burial.
The Central Bank of China-a Nationalist Organisation- on the bund, with a soldier on guard over the ruins and debris and nothing standing behind the gate.
·Photo by Kwong Kwui Co.
All that was left of a row of imposing buildings in a prominent part of the city,
Photo by Wah Taze Yat Pu.
A policeman standing guard over the bodies of Communists shot down when robbing a pawnshop in Wing Hon Rond.
Photo by Kwong Kwui Co.
An impromptu banner borne in triumph along the street, reading: The Propaganda Corps of the Soviet Government.
Photo by Kwong Kwul Co.'
A police station and surrounding property in the elty
stripped bare by the flames.
I'beto by Wah Tate Yat Po.
Photo by Kwong Kwui Co.
Another view of the gruesome mase which was once humanity- waiting to be cleared away,
A goods truck loaded with the mutilated bodies of Communista who paid the extreme penalty.
Photo by Kwong Kwut Co.,
Dead bodies of Communists who were mown down in a road after the loyalist troops had landed on the bund. Loot is ofrewn
ferywhere.