Residents generally take air-raid alarms calmly. "After Lena blasts of fire, the first alarm, people. could aeon silt moving about in streets, fame merely quickening their steps The. second" alarm, short and quick blasts, which is sounded "general {en or fifteen minutes after the Ars tone, finds. a much. smaller number people Tett in streets.
Wherever possible, people _seck shelter in dugeouts. These. are fow streets. bull of stone and. paved Wwith asphalt. Here, tand-bags are Renerally piled ligh on the pavement tinder the canopy" of all, concrete Striking examples of calmness and courage are displayed by the author {ice and workers of Doumer hospital which Is operated. by. French sionaries, and Haekeit, hospital,' by American: missionaries, "The fore mer Is located in the power station Fegion, and the Initer, some. distance {rom the Huang Sina railway station Boris cropped in Doumer" hospital wrecking' the operating' theatre" ant Xeray Feom. Althouse Hackelt hose pital" has "so far escaped damage, Fows of beautiful residences. almost directly opposite the street were demolished. "The two hospitals are stil Conditions in Shameen Not far from scenes of wreckage and desolation is the Bund which is as busy as in ordinary times. The western part of the city, Honan Gsouth of Pearl River) and Shameen are other places where effects of the air raids are the least felt With the exception of a few broken glasses, no damage was reported in the British and French occupied Shameen. Numerous junks crowd. around this small settle-sh, American and French in boats are" standing by.
Canton possesses many tall. buildings, many being over (wa-storeys.
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