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STORY OF SLAUGHTER Hundred Killed, Scores Wounded On Honam Is. INDESCRIBABLE HORROR JAPANESE TAKE IN CROWDED DISTRICT OVER CUSTOMS
NO TROOPS ANYWHERE IN SHANGHAI
DOCTOR'S NARROW ESCAPE
Canton, To-day
Dr. R L Lancaster, a British medico on Shameen, had a nar- row escape from death while mo- toring with a friend towards Ho- nam this morning during the Ja “panese air raid.
A bomb fell fifty yards in front. of their car, hat neither was in- jured, though they were compe el to return. Reuter
NEAR SCENE OF CANTON RAID
Canton, To-day.
Shanghai, 130 p.m. It is reliably Japanese are over all Chinese tions in the Internal ment, including. Maritime Customs,
test by the Consuls. it is understood
A graphic eye-witness account of the result of the bombing of Honam this morning was given to Reuter by Mr. L. F. Newman, a British official of eig the Salt Gabelle, who visited the scene a few min- displaced utes after the raid and estimates that 100 were kill merly ed.
Customs
Tientsi
Many Red Cross ambulances and lorries, laden to
o-day.
the
being
Akatane, for the CMC n
from
WUSIH-KIANGYIN with coffins, were rushed to the scene of the disas Mr. Kato is to take charge of
LINE LIVING UP
TO CLAIMS
Shanghai, 145 p.m., To-day. Foreign observers are suitably impressed by the solidity of re-
ter, where consternation reigned.
Mr. Newman saw many weeping relatives and highly praised the work of scores of young Chinese nurses endeavouring to cope with scenes of indes- cribable horror.
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Mr. Newman escorted an 80-year-old Chinese friend from his house, which was damaged by a already closed, on the advice
sistance now being offered by the bomb, to safety. Chinese on the Wusih-Kiangyin Four bombs, estimated to} front, which appears to be living have been 500-lb. missiles, were up to all claims for its stiffness dropped in crowded districts.
No troops were anywhere nea Wasih has been reduced prac the scene. Reuter tically to ruins by continuous air
as an obstacle.
bombardment and artillery fire, FRENZIED
although there are few troops
actually in the town, the Chinese TELEPHONING
main lines being some three or four miles to the east of Wusth
The Japanese are reported to have suffered severe losses in frontal attacks in the vicinity Chowkinhang, along the railway mated to exceed 100 and
damage done in Honam,
Canton, To-day. Canton was again bombed with a slaughter of civilians
-between Wush and Soochow.
Japanese infantry are strugacross the river from
ghing in vain against stout de
fence and wretched weather
round Kiangyin
-Reliable repo
indicate
on
the Japanese advance
south of Taihu Lake has
been brought to
standstill. Our Own Corre
pondent
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