The Archive · 1937

BRITISH PRESS HORRIFIED BY BOMBINGS Japanese Barbarism in Nanking and Canton Air Raids Vigorously Denounced

London, Sept. 23.

DER headings such as "The most frightful air raid of all,"

"People go mad with terror,"

"Japanese warplanes swoop down on civilians," "Streets choked with dead," "Thousands dead in worst air raid," "Canton air raid havoc,"

"Japan shatters Canton,"

London' evening papers print eyewitness accounts of to-day's attack on Canton by Japanese bombers.

While the messages emphasize that the estimates" of the terrible casual-tes among non-combatants are. official and will not be confirmed for

Satoment that no tiltary sleeves tie, at anti the Wireless through Reuter British Attitude to

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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