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up this awful mess.” Similar scenes were being enact- ed in five other hospitals, to which have been sent an average of one hundred cruelly injured victims each.

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the a handkerchief tied round face was necessary to enable me to proceed any further.

ONE SURVIVOR There was only one survivor this massacre. A pet monkey, still clinging, chattering angrily, in the lower branches of a tree to which his master had chained him.

I

counted 38 bodies here, but STOP PRESS

88

EAST BUND MASSACRE

200 On the East Bund, about yards from the Pearl River Bridge,many of the victims, as well

which the sampans two bombs were dropped. One those from crashed in the river about a yard were anchored alongside the Bund from the Bund, sending boats and will never be seen again.

On crossing to the Honam side, people high in the air. The death-

roll here is quite incalculable. The a similar picture of horror was pre- Here the victims had, in second exploded close to some sented. foreign mission property believed the main, been caught in their to be English, fragments and de-homes, about a hundred of which of had been blasted to matchwood bris shattering the windows property for considerable distance and rubble.

Where this bomb burst, some Men and women were still in the sellers ruins groaning while rescue work- fifty street hawkers, fruit mostly, who had only come into theers struggled frantically to extri- city area this morning, had taken cate them. It was here that the refuge. They would have been sudden cessation of the moaning of wiser to disperse, but were doubt-a child brought a momentary shud- less thinking of the safety of their der to helpless eye-witnesses of the stock-in-trade and crowded together horror of it all. deciding to stay taking what cover

they could by crouching

the wall of the buildings

Not one of them lived.

against

RUMOUR PANIC-

Just as I was leaving by the Pearl River Bridge, the rumour went round that another air raid

The bomb burst in their midst. alarm had been sounded, turning Thou- For yards either side, the Bund was the district into a panic.

littered with bananas, lichees, sands began to swarm into the cen- oranges and horribly mangled bod-tre of the city-Our Staff Repre- ies. One man lay stiff with his sentative. hands clutching what was left of his abdomen. Legs and arms were scattered everywhere. A hand lay

LITTERED WITH WRECKAGE

Canton, To-day. The East Bund is so

littered

human

in the middle of the road. The smell with the wreckage and of blood was so nauseating that (Continued at foot of Next Col)`

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The courage and skill of the doc- tors and hospital staffs are stupen- dous and are coping against tre- mendous odds. Their merciful and heroic work is a fitting tribute to the finest of Red Cross tradi- tions. Even the apparently hope- less cases are receiving the prompt- est attention possible.

In addition to the people killed on the shore, eye-witnesses state that

30 to 40 persons were blasted in the river and the bodies carried away

by the tide..

Meanwhile the authorities have cordoned off the area near the Pearl River bridge and the grim and work of sorting the corpses the remains is proceeding at a ra- pid pace.-Reuter.

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