"As I approached and went in," she said," I could not even try to count the large number of dead—people who had been machinegunned as they tried to escape from the bombs. None of them were soldiers, all were civilians."
Her own home near the church had been struck by a bomb and was on fire. A doctor she had known at Siaokan had his only son killed, his wife badly injured, while he himself lost an eye and suffered a broken arm.
The City Magistrate could be seen telephoning for help to Ying-cheng. tears streaming down his face—his whole family had been killed as well as a large number of civil officials. clerks and so on, with whom he had been in close daily contact. He needed all the help he could get, for practically the entire population of the city had fled and all the local organization had broken down.
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