An entire family of eight persons, Aeeing across a field, was completely wiped out, the: fragments of their bodies being blown over the farm. Another family of seven has three of its number" still in. one of the local hospitals, the sister minus an urn and' the mother ina serious condition from a bad neck wound evidently received as she tried to] protect "with her body the infant who was also wounded slightly. The bodies of possibly two other mem= bers from this home were held for some time in one of the hospital hiorgues but no member of the family on-hand was well enough to attempt identification. The remaining} two persons belonging to this group have never been found.
Volunteer first ald squads and Jocal boy scouts did excellent Work, although a few of the latter, only just in their teens, were sorely, tested by conditions. Gne was seen to turn sickly pale when a man, his ady a mass of jellied residue, was! placed on this Iad's stretcher" the head lolling back to. expose the Place from which most of the front, of the neck had been sliced out. This poor mortal breathed his last Japanese attacks,
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