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Trail Of Ruin And Corpses In Canton Bombing

Massacres On East JAPANESE

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Honam Island

(From Our Staff Representative)

Canton, To-day.

REJECT SPECIAL HANKOW RIGHTS

Shanghai, To-day.

Questioned regarding the de- cision to despatch British blue- jackets from Hong Kong to guard British property in Han-

· From the ruins of a house, a child wailed pitifully. kow, the Japanese spokesman

Another here said that the Japanese had repeatedly given assurances that

He added that it was impossi-

ble to recognise a thing which

Her whimpering suddenly ceased.

All they will protect the property of name had been added to the death list. the horror and tragedy of this morning's say-third Powers. age bombing of the crowded areas of Canton and Honam is exemplified in that isolated ex ample of similarly distressing incidents. For the moment it is impossible to give exact fig- ures of the casualties, in areas where a trail of ruin and mangled corpses bears witness to one

does not exist, such as British ad- ministrative rights in the ex- British Concession.

British property there had ex- factly the same rights

were on Chinese soil.

as: if it

PLANES

BOMBS SWATOW

Swatow, To-day.

A Japanese, plane this morning attempted to destroy a bridge leading to the railroad station, one bomb dropping in the river near the bridge and another in. the station yard. Returning lat- er on, the plane destroyed the station office with unknown casu- alties-Reuter.

FOREIGN RIGHTS TO THEIR OWN PROPERTY.

Tokyo, To-day. Japan's formal stand regard- Reutering the return of third party na- tionals to their former homes in an area under Japanese occupa-

of the worst mornings Canton has ever experi- GERMANY'S CHARGE enced, but from personal observation, it may be stated as certain that 150 dead and 500 wounded are under-estimates.

It was a brutal bombing, for,ing to the gravity of their if, as supposed, Pearl River wounds. Those with red paper, Bridge and the old power station many of them bleeding horribly, were the Japanese objectives, no were given immediate injections bomb dropped closer than 200 of morphia to deaden their pain died while on yards of the target and those Some of them which caused the most calamit- their way to the operation thea- ous disaster to civilian life and tre. property dropped more than half I saw one woman expire in cir- cumstances too horrific to des- a mile away.

cribe.

were

in

INCREDIBLE HAVOC-

The Chinese surgeons I myself counted 38 terribly

on the East literally up to their elbows mutilated bodies Bund, where two bombs were blood. In one operating theatre, dropped and another 51 on the doctor when I arrived was ex- Honam foreshore, where two 500-ploring the stomach of a man for pounders had created almost in- bomb fragments. The intestines credible havoc among the flimsy had been perforated. The doctor dwellings of boatpeople.

As rescue workers pene- trate further into the jum- bled wreckage, more and more victims are being un- covered, some still alive, sad- ly shattered, many already dead.

went on grimly with his task. knowing the case to be well-nigh hopeless.

HEROINES OF SUCCOUR · The entrance to the hospital was itself indescribable, the floor being slippery with blood. Girl rescue workers came in con- Canton's tinuously. They had rushed to Surgeons in six of ( largest hospitals are struggling the devastated areas immediate manfully to deal with the conly after the bombing, and then tinuous stream of critically An- on arrival at hospital with shat-

of them tered victims, carried stret some o

slight resem cases up several flights of stairs,

the lifts having been put out action

jured victims,

bearing only blance to

beluga

RED

WHITE!

inese surg

the

lled accord-

the cutting off of power. doctor told me:""""This is

we have had so far.

bombs were bigger this time

the hospital building| distance of half a mile. It will be hours before we can clear

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D'AFFAIRES

Berlin To-day.

Sion is being made public by the

Foreign Office soon, informed

Japanese observers predict

Foreign Office officials are un- derstood to be conferring with representatives of the Japanese

Reuter Army and Navy — possibly next week.

It is officially announced that Dr. Martin Fischwer, Counsellor of the Embassy, who has been in charge in Shanghai, has been ap- Dr. Bracklo, Consul-General in pointed Charge d'Affaires in Tsingtao, will take charge in China and will proceed to Hankow Shanghai. Trans Ocean.

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