WHERE A BOMB SHOOK THE WORLD OVER A Y EAR AGO.— More than a year after the hist atomic .bomb ever loosed against a people in warfare burst, over Hiroshima, wiping out. 60 per cent, of the city, -life begins to resume its normal routine. At least it does tor these pupils in a school, tinough the window of which may be seen some of the ruins of the once great city. Because of lack ot materials reconstruction has not been attempted. Rude shacks have sprung up in the devastated areas and occasionally there is a clean-up campaign, during which hundreds of bodies are dug out ot the nuns. I. is estimated that from 6000 to 10,000 bodies still lie beneath the debris.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 September 1946, Page 7
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