It was the frightfulness of the Bund corner explosion duplicated in the heaps of mangled bodies but rendered infinitely more shocking because of the piles of wreckage which covered the street and from which dreadful sounds came from the wounded pinned beneath. Water cascaded from a burst water main high up in Sincere's, showered on the dead and ran red in the gutters. For a hundred yards Nanking Road and the three side-streets converging on to the intersection were littered with glass from windows burst by concussion and shell splinters and here and there bodies lay in widening pools of their own blood, The three lower floors of Sincere's and Wing On's had taken the full force of steel and concussion and the full width of the huge show rooms were a confusion of blood-stained merchandise and fearsomely mutilate ed_ bodies. Dead in the instant of buying, assistants lay on one side of smashed counters and customers on the other People dazed and bleeding from lit injuries wandered about blind-not yet cognizant of their mir culeus escapes. A young Chinese boy ran around, blood spurting from the side of his head. His left ear had been taken off as cleanly by a surgeon's scapel. A Sikh police~ man lay riddled with wounds in the crow's nest from which he had been directing traffic and below was one of his fellows grievouslyphurt.
Rescuers fought their through wreckage to enter the Wing On building whose steel grilles had only been partly opened. Men with handkerchiefs across their faces to stem the stench of fumes and blood worked with their arms a d clothes @ripping blood. They 1 ened for moans and frenziedly hurled det aside to! free victims, or else they—shifted mounds of goods and uncovered bodies beyond aid Ambulances and trucks were filled with the dead, the dying and the wounded, emptied and returned for more dreadful cargos. Beneath Wing On's verandah the corpses were so showered with dust that they resembled mummies. Ironically,°the bodies had been showered with toys from burst windows. Young Chinese Boy Scouts performed heroic service in arching for the dead, dressing the lightly injured with improvised bandages from blood spattereq™ piles of materials, and stretcher beating.
"Lo Temps" of Paris learns that the Czech Minister at Lisbon, Dr. Robert Fiedler, has received instructions from Prague to retain at his post for the time being, of these young boys performed a task from which many Dgrown man would have shrunk. One/of the (Continued on page 6)
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