City in Confusion in Attack by Planes Canton, May 28.
The Chinese authorities here estimate that at least 600 persons were killed and 900 wounded as the result of Japanese air raids on Canton today. Up to this afternoon, 65 bodies are stated to have been recovered.
The main target of the raiders appears to have been the Wongsha Railway Station, which lies in the heart of a densely populated district near Shameen. The station was bombed four separate times, and more than 100 Chinese houses around it are stated by the Chinese authorities to have been destroyed A passenger train in which aly Briton, Mr. J. C. E. Rye, of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co.'s Hankow branch, and several German women and children had arrived in Canton this morning was completely wrecked.
Cargo in the station compound, including a large quantity of wood-oil from Hankow, was set on fire.
The Chinese authorities also allege that rescue workers who went to the Wongsha district after the first attack were bombed and machine-gunned during the second raid. They officially announce that 40 of the rescuers were killed, and 50 others injured.
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