"WONDERFUL, SHOW."

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 270, 13 November 1937, Page 10

"WONDERFUL, SHOW."

RESISTANCE OF CHINESE. 1

EXD OF WAR IN SIGHT? (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. Description of the scenes of carnage in the International Settlement in Shanghai on August 14 and August 23 was given by Mr. C. F. Taylor, an engineer of the Shanghai Electric Construe-

tion Company, who has arrived here on furlough. He stated that one bomb, dropped on the Nanking Road on the latter occa-

sion, killed 173 and injured 549 innocent victims. The streets, he said, were literally packed with mutilated bodies. The general opinion among residents of

the settlement was that the bomb was dropped by a Chinese 'plane, being a case of misdirection of the missile from a height too great to ensure accurate aim. In extenuation, Mr. Taylor said the Chinese bombers had had no experience of this dreadful form of warfare, while, on the other hand, Japanese bombing of civilians was deliberate. Mr. Taylor believes the war will end within two months. The Chinese had put up "a wonderful show," he said, and the Japanese, not expecting such resistance, should be willing to come to terms. Losses on both sides were enormous, and, if the campaign was pursued in the winter, they would be incalculable. Mr. Taylor's wife passed through Auckland recently with her young son, on her way from Shanghai to visit her parents at Dunedin. She described the opening Japanese attack on Shanghai, the bombing of the International Settlement, and the plight of British refugees.