Most of this afternoon's casualties occurred at Wuchingmiao, the slum section of Hankow city, near where there are no military establishments, while it is feared that the foür bombs dropped on Hanyang also accounted for a considerable number of casualty ies, In addition, it is learnt that two bombs landed in the compound of the Roman Catholic middle school in Wuchang, where there was, however, only one casualty—a Chinese student Canton Again Raided by Japanese Planes Japanese naval aircraft at 5 ann, yesterday again raided Canton, dropping bombs "with satisfactory results" upon the Military Academy and the headquarters of the Provincial Army, a naval spokesman in Shanghai said yesterday, Unless the governments of Europe and America protest to Japan in adequately impressive terms, the journal proceeds, Nanking and Can-ion are doomed to scenes of most ruthless massacres of civilian populations on record, If sufficient foreign residents are among the victims, it declares, various governments will be driven to protect their nationals by the irresistible force of public opinion, but it would be more to the honour of civilization and humanity if, before that happened, nations of the West and the United States entered into a collective effective protest to stop another ghastly epoch of "frightful Humanity, declares the "Daily Mail," with the Far Eastern picture of what an up-to-date war entails, asks afresh what can be done to avert the dread death-roll and annihilation of property wrought by war "planes.
Japan's action in raiding her adversary's crowded towns, it states, is widely condemned. The protests evoked are not merely because of the material loss incurred or being threatened, but are prompted by a revulsion of feeling on the broad ground of humanity.
The attacks on Canton and Nanking, asserts the "News-Chronicle, make the most humiliating reading Ko has ever been the duty of a newspaper to print, who was imprudent enough to watch the raiders from a window.
Fires were started where the bombs dropped, and they were still burning fiercely late to-night.
Police and volunteers laboured late into the night in extricating the injured and removing the dead. Owing to the fact that the city is in a high pitch of excitement, it is impossible to obtain actual figures of the casualty ies to-night, but it is feared that tomorrow will show the details to parallel those of Nanking and Canton.
Poignant scenes were witnessed in the affected areas. Mingled with the groans of the wounded were the weeping of women who had lost their loved ones and the cries of children who had been parted from their parents.—-Reuter.
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