The contrast of life and desolation is even much more sharp at Huang Sha railway station, the Canton terminus of the Canton-Hankow railway, which has been the target of numerous Japanese air raids. Although unéreds of bombs have been dropped here, laying waste a large tract of land, traffic is maintained and amidst extensive ruins, passengers still cóme in and out of the much battered, and devastated area.
The station building was badly damaged, but oddly enough, the ticket office still stands, When a representative of this paper visited the place one afternoon recently, passengers were seen filing past the office, many having already obtained their tickets, waiting on the platform or sitting inside coaches.
The destruction covers a Wide area, where all but the railway workers and gendarmes have deserted. At a corner of the badly damaged platform, a pile of luggage, some of which was blood-stained, was left behind by those killed in one of the raids. Passengers nevertheless still crowd the station, bringing life to n scene of death and destruction, Also the target of Japanese air raids, the Chinese section of the Canton-Kowloon railway is still being Used as usual, Several stations along the line have been more or less damaged. But passengers come and go əs if nothing has happened,
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