Evacuation of Refugees to Be Continued Repairs to the track of the South Railway Station damaged by Jepanese bombing last Saturday was almost completed last night, and the evacuation of refugees by train to the interior is expected to be resumed to-day or to-morrow, it was learned from Chinese authoritative sources yesterday.
Chinese charity organizations which supplied coffins for the killed refugees reported that a total of 112 bodies were gathered from the scene of the carnage. It was definitely ascertained that not a single Chinese soldier was among the mangled bodies collected at the damaged station.
The casualties were placed at 150 wounded. The railway staff suffered seven deaths including 'a railway policeman, Six others, who were all workers, had been recently transferred from the North Station to assist the South Station staff.
Of a group of twenty workers employed by a tailor shop in Rue Hue, who had. been patiently waiting for transportation at the South Station for one and half days, only two returned to the shop. According to the survivors, not a single Chinese soldier could be found anywhere near the station at the time of the Japanese bombing.
The casualties of the North Station bombing by Japanese aeroplanes were placed at 250 killed and wounded. A spokesman of the Shanghai City Government said that most of the people were poor and could not afford to evacuate. They were in their homes when the bombs reduced rows of houses into ruins.
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