The Archive · 1937

BOMBING VICT!

SUNGKIANG — Red Cross Society Sends Workers, Supplies

Upon request "of the Sungkiang magistrate, the Chinese Red Cross Society has despatched a large corps of relief workers together with one doctor and four nurses to assist the local authorities there in taking care of the wounded refugees.

The wounded, about 400 in number, were in crowded coaches of a Kashing-bound train on Wednesday, when Japanese aeroplanes dropped bombs on them. Three hundred passengers in the train were killed instantly.

The Catholic Hospital in Sungkiang, according to reports received here yesterday, has done a splendid piece of work in helping other medical institutions there to attend to the wounded civilians.

The Chinese Red Cross Society has &lso despatched five large boxes of medical supplies badly needed by the Red Cross Hospital in Süngkiang.

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