The Archive · 1937

70 YARDS FROM CREEK

Two Sikh Policemen Among The Injured Between forty and fifty Chinese, largely refugees, were burned when a Japanese incendiary bomb explode ed in crowded Sinza Road, at Myburgh Road, at 415 o'clock yest day afternoon. Many of them, including small children, were not accorded a chance to live last night, so extensive were the burns they suffered. Two Sikh policemen also were injured, one of them seriously. Several rickshaws were burned to a Many of ihe victims lay in street, naked. Not only hiad clothes been burnt off, but they suffered terrible skin burns as

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