1937-10-23 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER

NANKING IN WARTIME: ANTI-AIRCRAFT DEFENCES

ARE UNCANNILY ACCURATE *****

Japanese military chiefs may command Nipponese pilots to bomb Nanking, but no power on earth can force the aviators to attempt almost certain death in the formed, although doctors and of uncannily accurate Chinese anti aircraft batteries once the ma- chines are in the air.

which is located in an outlying dis trict of Nanking, the city was damaged. All the hospits the city were crowded with

serious

were finding more cases than they could handle, all were given competent attention. Hospitals are still being opened Such was the comment of Mr. here and there, but the need for John Holland, correspondent of the these is not as great as the es- "Daily Telegraph," Sydney, one of tablishment of first aid depots be- a party of three foreigners who tween these hospitals and the front made the trip to the

stal, reines turning to S "nghai

car

week

›

2.

The radio station in Nanking is

Voluntary workers are be ing signed on every hour and This This party also included Mr.there is an immediate job for them Harvey Gale Duncan of the China to do. Soap Company and Mr. Eric Mayell, Fox-Movietone cameraman, still functioning regularly despite who made the trip by Mr. Duncan's Japanese bombings, while except for the wounded, there is no sign of people in a distressed condition Japanese planes retreat hastily.

Food is plentiful, in the capital. every time they attack the capital although there is a scarcity of Mr. Holland informed a "China white flour and baking powder Press" representative. During his three-day stay in Nanking, where and imported articles are hard to he witnessed one raid, he did not flying

tobtain.

Morale Of People High

› see a single Japanese plane

over the centre of the city. Time and again enemy machines would "Despite all this stark realism approach the outskirts of the city and horrors of war right at their then they turned tail and dash-doorstep, the Chinese are un-

ed away.

Guns Highly Efficient

daunted in spirit, commented Mr. Duncan. Every man, from gener- als down to coolies, seemed happy

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at being afforded a chance to do LAST 4 TIMES TO-D,

Chine e archie-guns, he added, his bit in defending the country. more than met requirements in re-against the invaders and carried pulsing an air attack. Manned by on determinedly.

experts, the batteries are able to The party had by no means a place a circle of shells around a pleasant trip either to or from Nan- single enemy plane at 6,000 feet.king. Leaving Shanghai by the Five planes were brought down Jessfield during the raid.

took the

at 4 p.m. the party

According to Mr. Duncan, who Naneng turn and went to

where they ran into a made the trip to Nanking in order severe Japanese bombardment. to salvage his company's sound While travelling on the road from truck and crew which advertised Nanziang to Kiating, the trio had was the uncomfortable experience of the company's products and stranded in the capital, there is having Chinese artillery emplace on the side of the road, apparently little possibility of the ments, Chinese Government moving its firing over their heads at Japanese seat farther inland. Although the positions, Mr. Holland reports atmosphere was naturally tense However, the elevation of the guns what with repeated air raids, the was such as to place them in no populace was calm and confident danger.

The route taken on the way to The people were admirably, train- ed to obey alarms, and did so the capital then continued on to quietly and without panic. Not a Quinsan, Soochow, Wusih, Chang- single automobile is seen on the chow, Kintan, Tienwangsze, Ku-

and mally Nanking. streets after an alarm has been yung sounded.

Anecdotes Prevail

Despite all these precautions, the populace has every confidence in Nanking is experiencing a trying the defending anti-aircraft batter-time, but the humorous side of the ies and the Chinese planes which hostilities is not lost upon the po- take to the air immediately an pulation, according to Mr. Mayell alarm is sounded The general at It is a standing

in the capital titude is not one of fear, Lut that that newsreel of speculation as to the number of about the bo Japanese planes which will be

brought down.

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