Though no official figures are yet ailable, it is feared that the number of dead must be about 150 and the injured more tham 100. It is learned that numbers of the girls killed in the sewing factory were scarcely out of their teens.
Foreign observers are of the opinion that the bomb which did all the damage must have been an incen diary bomb, as its explosion was muffled and it was followed by a sheet of flame which rapidly enveloped the surrounding houses.
A high tribute is paid on all sides to the rescue work, which was got under way speedily and efficiently, everybody, including firemen, labour corps volunteers and girl first aid workers, doing their apportioned jobs smoothly and quickly, and so saving numbers of lives which might otherwise have been additionally sacrificed.—Reuter.
"Japanese aircraft did not fly over the central part of Canton, as reported in dispatches, when raiding the Paiyun aerodrome, which is well nut of the city.
"It may have been the explosion of some machinery employed at the factory that was attributed by the Chinese authorities to a Japanese bomb", he added.
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