Pictures just received showing scenes of a recent air raid on Shanghai by Japanese aero planes. The two Chinese children seen on the left of the top picture had a miraculous escape when the Nantao South Railway Station was bombed from the air. Blown from the plat form on to the track, they were covered by a sheet of iron, but their parents both killed. Below, Chinese Boy Scouts and yonug Red Cross worlers attending to dead and wounded outside the railway station. More than two hnndred civilians, mostly women and children, were killed and wounded
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 245, 15 October 1937, Page 11
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96Pictures just received showing scenes of a recent air raid on Shanghai by Japanese aero planes. The two Chinese children seen on the left of the top picture had a miraculous escape when the Nantao South Railway Station was bombed from the air. Blown from the plat form on to the track, they were covered by a sheet of iron, but their parents both killed. Below, Chinese Boy Scouts and yonug Red Cross worlers attending to dead and wounded outside the railway station. More than two hnndred civilians, mostly women and children, were killed and wounded Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 245, 15 October 1937, Page 11
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