Residents have been baptised into! the full horrors of the Japanese invasion during the past two weeks, the first Japanese planes to invade this city having let go their missil death and destruction on October 13 when about 20 bombs were ropped on and near railway station Duildings, including teashops which were crowded at the time, killing and nornaly mangling about' 30 Chinese of the poorer class, many of them formers, and wounding about others, half of whom were so seriously maimed snd injured that a large percentage group died soon after reaching. hospital.
Your correspondent was out scene of the incident shortly "after the planes left. "Bodies, many of them ly chunks of flesh, bone and hair, the cobblestones. where they: had landed after being blasted from teashops. Women and children made up.a large part of the casualties bodies being inextricably confused withthe debris of the small demolished shops. Torsos with no extrem!- ties at all, heads blown completely: away leaving only the lower Jaw and {ceth, the bodies of young boys: and itis, a fow minutes before bundles of happy childhood but now only splattered masses of blood and tissue, were horrible but nevertheless real scenes—too gruesome for their full effect (0 be completely realized at once,
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