The Archive · 1938

Other Destruction

In addition, the following proper-Yes were damaged or _déstroyed; The Japanese Weather Bureau in Tsinanfu; The lecture hall of the Japanese Primary School in Tsinanfu; Dojin Hospital in Tsinanfu Both the Weather Bureau and the lecture hall of the school were burned, the spokesman stated. The rest of the rooms in the school were looted.

All departments of the hospital, with the exception of the sick ward where patients were being cared for, were looted, the spokesman said, and surgical instruments removed.

At Changtien the Japanese branch Consulates and the Japanese Primary School were looted. Coal mines were destroyed beyond hope of rehabilitation, the officer declared.

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