Canton, July 14 Casualties conservatively estimated by the Chinese at 150 killed and 480 wounded, and probably exceeding this figure, were caused by a further Japanese air raid on Canton at 8.05 a.m.
The scenes following last month's raids were re-enacted in the vicinity of the Pearl River Bridge and the East Bund, where Reuter's correspondent counted 34 corpses, near the shattered remains of a bomb.
The bomb landed in the middle of a group of vegetable peddlers who were unloading produce, reducing the group to a grisly mixture of hurhan flesh, vegetables and fruit.
Across the bridge, on the Honam side, there were 49 bodies of boat-dwellers laid out on the waterfront, with the usual gruesome heap of unidentified human remains close by.
Visiting the Chungshan Hospital, the correspondent counted over 100 wounded being carted in, some dying on the doorstep, It was learned that four other ho pitals catered for similar numbers. Reuter.
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