NIGHT OF HORROR
BLAZING BUILDINGS
APPALLING EFFECT OF BOMBING
(Received July 30, noon.) TIENTSIN, July 29. ! It is a night of horror in Tientsin. Large areas of the congested Chinese quarter, are still ablaze, luridly lighting up the evening sky. | The casualties are not yet known, but they must be very heavy. Indirect damage as a result of intensive Japanese bombing is described
as "appalling." . Volunteer fire brigades did their utmost to stem the destruction, but the flames swept through the ramshackle buildings like a bushfire. The situation is now described as quiet. Most of the Chinese are fatalistically accepting the destruction. Many of them remained impassive even while aeroplanes were raining death from the skies. Meanwhile trained troops of the Nanking Government are approaching Tientsin, and fierce fighting is reported in the vicinity. General Chiang Kai-shek has issued a statement that China is determined to fight to the last man.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1937, Page 9
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