The tragedies we have heard, and the horrors our own eyes have seen, are only samples of what has been taking place almost throughout the province. Beside the 8 thousands of sick who Have perished on the march, and the still greater number who have been killed or died of wounds on the field, there have been the poor wounded brought into hospitals. There were GOO at one time in Nanning itself, under the care of the Chinese army doctors.
After one month's neglect in one of these improvised buildings, I a patient with a compound fracture of the arm: the stench from the wound was indescribable he had evidently been continuously lying on the hand of the affected arm for it was quite flattened out.
I heard a Chinese gentleman from Canton laugh at the fuss made by the Kuangsi people over their troubles. We in Kuangtung," he said, "have been so accustomed to atrocities that they cease to strike us as strange. What Kuangsi has inflicted on us in recent years is now being paid back to them."
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