The messages received from Wuchow do not state what the weather was at the time of" the bombing. "Wuchow is ordinarily a fair-sized city with a population of about 250,000 people. The Stout Memorial Hospital, which is owned by the Foreign Mission Board of the Amen can Southern Baptist Convention, is a large 5-storey concrete building near the centre of the town and is well marked with American flags the staff includes two foreign doctors. According to the local office of the American Southern Baptist Mission, it is not near any public building or buildings of any military value nor could it be mistaken for any of these.
The air-raid precautions scheme devised' by Dr. Beddoe and his staff called for the speedy removal of all patients to the lowest floor and this, together with the stout concrete root and floors, is believed to have been the means of saving the lives of most of the 140-odd patients.
No protest has been lodged with the American authorities in Shanghai, but it is believed that a full report is being sent to the U.S. Consul-General in Canton. The local office, however, has sent a strongly-worded report to the mission's headquarters in the United States.
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