JAPANESE BOMB CANTON
TRAGEDY AT SEWING FACTORY TWO HUNDRED BODIES RECOVERED (UNITED PBEBS 4SSOCIATJOK COPVRIOHT.) (Received April 11, 10.30 p.m.) HONG KONG, April 10. Four Japanese war aeroplanes in a raid on Canton hit a sewing factory. Two hundred bodies have been recovered and 100 are missing. Four hundred persons were sent to hospital. The sewing factory contained 1000 workers.
Members of the Red Cross, with their bare hands, tore the debris from the factory- Some of the bodies were incinerated.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22375, 12 April 1938, Page 11
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