Late News ALL LIFE DESTROYED IN HIROSHIMA
“City A Disastrous Ruin” (Rec. 2.10 am.) NEW YORK, August 8. “The atomic bomb literally seared to death all living things, human and animal, in Hiroshima,” says Tokyo radio. “The dead and injured are burned beyond recognition and the authorities are unable to get a definite check on the civilian casualties. The city is a disastrous ruin. “The effect of the bomb was widespread. Those out of doors were burned to death and those indoors were killed by the indescribable pressure and by the heat Houses and buildings were smashed, including emergency medical facilities.”
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Southland Times, Issue 25746, 9 August 1945, Page 5
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