1937-11-16 — Page 22

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Sungktang Bombing Horrors Told By Foreigner

A vivid eye-witness account of the ministering to the wounded. This ruthless bombing by Japanese planes work, however, had hardly got well of the peaceful defenceless city of under way when three Japanese Sungxiang, has been given in planes, all bombers, were heard over Shanghai by a foreigner, Mr. T. M. head. They headed for the Mission Hartford, who was in the city at compound of the thodist Epicso the time and saw the hail of bombs pal Church, South, which is Ameri fall upon the city.

can-owned and over which flew the American flag.

TAKE REFUGE IN DUGOUTS

The planes, he stated, bombed both the business and residential districts. of Sungkiang, not once but more than a half-dozen times

“A considerable ummber of per- in as many days. Every day for sons, foreign and Chinese, were at almost one week, Mr. Hartford de- the compound," said Mr. Hartford, clared, the Japanese bombers visit but we were unable to warn them ed the city with their missiles of as the telephone lines were down as death and destruction. The avia-the result of the previous bombings. tors, he declared, seemed determin-Fortunately, the persons within the ed to destroy all public and educa mission compound heard the planes tional buildings.

and quickly took the best available cover, the majority seeking refuge Mr. Hartford, describing the bom-in the dugouts, which had been pre- bings, saidTM

viously prepared in anticipation of

ja raide

"On October 2, shortly before 8 am, two unusually large planes "It was clear that the mission was visited the city, circled about for a the objective of the aviators for they few minutes, then dropped a total circled the property three times, of six bombs Not a great deal of then dropped their bombs. -- damage was done on that occasion,{ "The bombers formed a straight due to the fact that the aim of the line, each dropping two bombs the bombers was poor and the majority (first time, then returning to the of the missiles fell into open spaces. scene to drop more. In all, about a

dozen of the- AIMED AT BUSINESS CENTRE

within the missin were dropped

BOMBS WERE INCENDIARY-

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Few Pieces of Black Wood

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The China Year Book is an in- dispensable reference book China; it ms its reader with all material

for forming

correct judgments on the Far Eastern situation and embodies all-important docum statistics of the year,

and

compound and on CHINA YEAR BOOK the campus of the girls school. "One hour later the terrified re- The latter is an institution conduct-

(18th edition) 1936 sidents ran for the nearest sheltered by the Methodist Episcopal when nine Japanese, bombing planes Church, South. appeared. They had as their ob- jectives, it was apparent, the city government buildings and the busi- ness centre. No less than 60 death- "There is no doubt but that the dealing bombs were dropped and bombs. dropped near the school were the dead and dying littered the of the indendiary type for the im- streets.

mediately set of the building on fire. The flames quickly spread to ad- "I saw the entire Huang family, joining "buildings of the school, the four in mumber, all Christian Chin- principal structures going up in ese, praying in the open street when flames, despite heroic efforts a bomb struck not five feet from check out the blaze. them. They were blown to bits. A

"One missile landed in front of the young girl with both legs and a por tion of her face blown off dragged home of the Rev. W. E. Burke, who her mangled body from the debris was absent from the city at the time. of her home and attempted to give The residence was badly damaged. aid to her little brother, who was The quarters of - the -- ser- lying in a dying condition on the vants also were damaged or street. Both succumbed from their entirely destroyed and several of terrible injuries.”

the latter were killed and many in- jured."

Eventually, said Mr. Hartford, the nine bombers left the vicinity of the The missionaries in Sungkiang, city and the terror-stricken people Mr. Hartford declared, are at loss to began the work of clearing away the explain the attack upon the "Ameri debris and removing the dead and

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As the result of the bombings, the foreigner large numbers of residents of Sung- kiang have fled to the countryside for safety. One party of Sangkiang

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