GHASTLY EFFECTS OF BOMBING
The following telegram was received by the Chinese Consul from Nanking last night:—
"The number of civilian casualties far beyond the fighting front has increased considerably as a result of the Japanese bombing of Sunkiang, 25 miles from Shanghai, at noon yesterday. Raining bombs on the Sunkiang station, the raiders wrecked five passenger coaches full of refugees from Shanghai. The station office, watertower, the overhead bridge, and a section of the track were also destroyed. Over 300, mostly women and children were killed outright and 400 were injured, of whom 50 succumbed during the afternoon. Littered with mutilated bodies and blood-soaked debris, the station presented a ghastly scene. Late yesterday afternoon the emergency corps was still occupied with the task of attending the wounded and extricating the bodies from the debris. "Two Japanese planes were brought down in the vicinity of Swatow yesterday, and another was damaged by Chinese anti-aircraft guns."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 63, 11 September 1937, Page 10
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