As expected the maimed and the dying soon were brought to the hospitals Some were utterly past hope, but the doctors and nurses were busy till nightfall doing their best for these wrecks of humanity. Relatives would plead that their wounded have first care, and all that could be done was to attend to the worst cases first. One woman's foot was missing, and nearly all the long bones broken. We passed her for the next one, a feeble old man of 66, who had to have his foot amputated. Fingers, legs, arms, what a sad mess! The reader must be spared, and yet the world should know what is going on. To be sure the new disease of "jitteritis" is more common than it was, but crowded Hankow for the most part goes on calmly about its routine, fixing the more firmly in mind what the end-reaction must be. Today perhaps 900 or more have been killed or seriously injured. Should 27 enemy planes continue their devilish work as today for every day for a period of three years, there would still be a large number of Hankow residents left, not to mention the additions caused by the constant stream of refugees and others,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.