Throughout last night the crackle of burning wooden huts mingled with the crash of an occasional ston building and the groans of the wounded and the dying.
Perhaps even worse than the noise, however, were the mixed stenches of charred human flesh, rotting corpses and the choking fumes of smoke.
As soon as it was obvious that the Japanese wore, in reality, pressing towards Hankow, fuses were set to the main military buildings, public utility plants and the centres of communication, while Japanese property-was also set ofice.
Braving the explosions, fires and the efforts of angry crowds, a British Naval party removed explosives from the Nissin Kisen Kaisha building, which is close to the British Cor sulate-General.
'Throughout, yesterday morning and afternoon, explosions followed each other all' around the Administrative Districts, rocking the buildings and smashing windows on all sides.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.