The Archive · 1937

No Soviet Reception

ON NOVEMBER 7

Nanking, Nov. 2.

The Soviet Embassy announced today that due to the existing situation China, no reception will be held fat the Embassy on November 7, the twentieth anniversary of the October Revolution—Central News.

20 yards forthe fon and the body was dumped beside the railway racks to make way for that of someone who still had possibilities of Being saved.

Professional medical services show~ fed excellent skill and organization in handling the situation. Nurses and doctors were on the spot imjoly after the affair, and the! wounded of a serious nature were rushed. to hospitals where the stars worked hard and long to save as many lives as possible, Since this bloody introduction of war to our community Japanese planes have paid seven other visits here, each time the objective being the railway station, but on one occa sion a cotton factory was. also. inz cluded in the targets. Statements of the Japanese spokesman have given only a meagre reference to the inclusion of communications here in their aerial activities but our citizens will long remember the scenes of mass killing and wanton. destruction which resulted only in calamity to helpless civilians, only two soldiers, have been injured and there the regular railway guards,

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