The Archive · 1938

Foreign Gunboats Arrive

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Dr. Nystrom, of the Swedish Mission, informed the reporter that his wife and daughter were still at Kuling where they had gone last summer and had been unable to get away, but he expected that they would be making the trip on the Monocacy, and this was why he had come down to Shanghai. In Hankow, he had been at the Union Hospital removed to the Salt Gabelle Bank. When the Japanese arrived, he continued, we were driven out and told to find new premises because the building was required as a military headquarters, Commenting on the march of the Japanese troops into Hankow Dr. Nystrom stated that the occupation was carried out in an orderly manner, although he had seen one wounded Chinese soldier who had been left behind by the retreating troops on account of his wounds bayoneted by ihe Japanese. After a day or two, however, Dr. Nystrom added, the Japanese start looting the outskirts.

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