Scarcely had 1 arrived when the, Jolarm sounded, and dine Japanese bombers, flying low and in relays Jof three, appeared overhead. For' approximately one hour they bombed. the vicinity of the station, Six bombs, looking like miniature tor-pedees as they rushed to earth with 8 terrifying hiss, exploded within 100 yards of where I lay on the The cap of one bomb fell not ten yards away. The concussion was $0 violent that I was lifted several inches off the ground, which shook violently, and I was covered with pieces of earth and ston One bomb which exploded inside the Mission compound made an enormous hole in the wall and blew jin windows and doors and tore largo, holes in the roof.
An incendiary bomb set a group of houses near by on fire and blew a child about four years old 30] yards on to the railway track. The child's charred corpse was still smouldering 40 minutes later when. the raid was over and I had returned the railway station, The scene here was unforgettable. All around lay mutilated corpses To the cries of the wounded Jadded the stench of charred flesh and the heat of burning materials, The station and two steel coaches, loaded with tobacco were burning. wind carried the flames to nearby thatched huts until one "by one the whole district seemed to be fon fre. Four sets of the railway track were torn and twisted, with bomb craters, some as much as 30 feet deep, on' every side.
One steel wagon had been turned completely upside down, its wheels the air, telegraph wires and poles Jay confused and broken in heaps as if struck by a typhoon, and of the train in which I had travelled nothing remained but a labyrinth of [broken matchwood.
Track Repaired Nevertheless, unbelievable though it may seem, after six hours' cease-ess work by railway workers and others the track was sufficiently restored for me to continue my Jjourney southward in a specially provided push ear.
Four brake men and one guard accompanied me, racing down the next terminus of Hwayuan, 10 miles south of Kwangshul.
We had to detrain some distance short of the station as Hwayuan was just recovering from a raid similar to that experienced by Kwangshui.
This raid was the third consecutive aerial bombardment in as many 'cays, some 200 bombs being dropped jin the latest visit in approximately 40 minutes.
Hwayuan looked, to all intents: of 1,000, but here again, 10 Hours' ceaseless work, order was restored out of seeming chaos and a specially sent train arrived on the scene.
There was a wild stampede for accommodation, but I managed to secure a seat in a third-class car-
Finally, after every available foothold, both inside and outside the train had been filled to overloading, Anti-Japaniese Boycott
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