Nanking Road Corner and Great World Turned Into' Shambles by Missiles of Death Shanghai, Aug. 15.
'ODERN aerial warfare with all its terrors descended on Shanghai yesterday when the Chinese, for the first time, used aeroplanes to. bomb the Japanese cruiser Idzumo and Japanese positions, All day Chinese aeroplanes swooped over Shanghai and were chased away by Japanest anti-aircraft guns, but the day's great tragedy occurred about 4.30 when two bombs were dropped in the Settlement and two in the French Concession and approximately 600 persons, mostly Chinese, were killed, and 1,000) wounded, 'Two bombs fell in Nanking Road on the Palace Hotel and the Cathay Hotel and this most popular Shanghai's corner was converted into' veritable shambles, the road being littered with dead and dying, Two more were dropped on the Great World, the amusement resort in Avenue Edward VII, and here the French police estimated the casualties at 445 killed and.828 wounded.
Among the foreigners killed in the bombing were: Mr. A. A. Williams, accountant of the "North-China Daily News," who was: Killed within. a few seconds of his leaving the office: Dr. Frank Rawlinson, editor of the "Chinese Recorder," who was killed as he stepped from his car outside the Nanking Theatre; Mr. J. Karkatsky, of Clarke's Detective Agency, killed in Nanking Road: Prof. Robert Reischauer, cruise" party leader staying at the! Palace Hotel and Dr. R. C, Robertson, of the Lester Institute of Medical Research, killed on the Settlement side of the Avenue Edward VU-Vu Ya-ching Road intersection, Dr. Robertson's, identification was not possible until an early hour this morning. In addition Mr. A. Estin of the Shanghai Municipal Council was found among the dead at the same place. At St. Marie's Hospital and not expected to survive are M, Danieck and Mr. Basanoff, of the French Electric Light Ca., who were grievously wounded by' tragments of bombs.
Three Chinese police constables of the French Concession were killed while on The Nanking Road tragedy ocurred at 427=as recorded by the Cathay Hotel clock stopped by the explosion—when atter a day- of air dashes, a little bombing and much anti-aircraft fre, ten Chinese aero planes appeared "in cloudy "sky heading down-river, Immediately the Tdzumo let loose progress of the alr fleet as shrapnel Durst, Six of the machines vanished in the clouds but from one of the: four monoplanes making up the rear four narial torpedoes were seen to @rop as the planes" passed over the Bund far from their apparent objec~ tive, Two fell in the Whangpoo creating a tidal wave which swept far into the Bund, Two others fell Blow and dealt carnage indescribable scene of dreadful death was covered as the high explosive fumes slowly lifted, Flames from a blazing ear played over distorted bodies. In Shapeless heaps where they had been huddling In shelter bodies in colle loth turning scarlet lay piled up in the entrances to the main doorways and oreades of the Palace and Cathay Hotels, Heads, legs, arms lay far from smashed masses of flesh." For the full. long stretch of both buildings, pavements and roadway were littered with objects of hideous death, Across the tram-line was the body of a tali european, his suit of white flannot unmarked 40 cleanly had his head been separated from body. Dead in his track? og he had been directing the come: tame loy the corpse of a Chinese policeman with" shrapnel through his head. A disembowelled child was nearby.
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