Wuchow, Sept. 17.
At noon today Wuchow—a city of 87,000 population—experienced—the most disastrous bombing seen here since the undeclared war began. The actual bombing required less than two minutes, but during that short space of time scores of civilians were killed or wounded, Homes were wrecked, stores shattered and a. disastrous fire which broke out immediately afterward made a scene of horror and desolation never before experienced in this port city.
About nine o'clock in the morning the first air raid alarm sounded, and soon the streets were crowded with a mass of frightened humanity fleeing to the nearest shelters. Men, women and children joined in the stampede Some of tne more daring, having fled many times before seemed to take it as a pleasant pastime, but to many others, the frightened look on their faces told plainly that to them it was a life and death matter.
For perhaps an hour or more the mass of the populous of this important city were hidden underground or in the temporary shelters made along the streets. Then the "All clear" signal rang out and at once people began to clamber out of their hiding' places like gophers from their holes, each glad indeed to be out in the open again.
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