Berlin, Sept. 29.
Kenneth Anderson, Reuters correspondent, and Mr. Melvin Whiteleather, Associated Press correspondent, were arrested at a Sudeten German rally at Dresden vester-day.
The correspondents were suspected of being spies. They were detained for hours, and were then released.
—Reuter, give.
Fires were still burning all over the city and lasted till well after dark. One great diffüculty that confronted the rescue party was the lack of able-bodied men to get water or drag away the debris and their first efforts were accordingly devoted to collecting as many of the badly wounded as the lorry would hold and rushing them back to the hospital at Tsaoshih, and then administering' first aid to as many as possible of those who had to be left where they lay or where they could be put under some shelter.
Telegrams to Hankow brought a party of nurses and doctors the next day, while the Senior Magistrate arrived to organize the local farmers into parties for getting the injured and wounded from the debris of fallen houses.
"Without Food or Water The work, however, seemed to be much beyond the powers of the limited forces. Said the weeping daughter of an old man brought into the Tsaoshih hospital the following Frida:
"For three days he lay without food or water under the ruins—with a bullet in his chest and another in his arm."
About 120 badly-wounded people had reached the Tsaoshih hospital by the Saturday, and according to the "North-China Daily News" correspondent, "few of the one to two thousand injured can have reached any other. Gangrene and starvation will have taken hundreds. Such is the fate of one city of China!"
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