1939-05-27 — Page 18

ATTEMPTING to stem the flames with

a thin trickle of water from the shattered city mains. Chinese boy scouts assisted volun- toor firemen in fighting the flames.

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 27, 1939

CHUNGKING TRAGEDY

· ·** DESOLATION IN Chungking's main strect. An awe-inspiring photograph, Illustrating more graphically than words the utfor horror and tragedy of modern warfare. Hundreds of people were buried in theso ruins.

TRAGEDY

IN A WAR-TORN CAPITAL

THE EXCLUSIVE photo- graphs roproduced on this page graphically illustrate the horrors of modern warfare, and are of added intorest in vlew of tho ronowed aerial bombardment of Chungking, on Thursday.

Tho photograph ABOVE shows the great fire raging in the heart of the city after the raid on May 5, when 1,800 people died. RIGHT shows flames started by Incondiary bombs spreading rapidly through, the business area of the city.

These photographs, which aro exclusive to the Tele- graph" in Hongkong, wero flown hard by plano and aro reproduced for the first time.

ALL THAT REMAINED of the main strast of Chungking" after the May. completely rasing the mala businons aroa,

-The Flames swept right across the city,

doomed caple, M

TERRIFIED Chungking

Half-a-million

but in the open as they await means to leave the vacuated in five days.