As far as Hankow was concerned the only military objective in the path of today's raid was the airfield. I have just cost come from a trip to the sites of most of the bombs dropped in Hankow. Hundreds of men are moving the debris to get at the buried men, women, and children. The Yuen Ling and Ningpo Hui Kuans (guild halls) were among the structures demolished completely. The huge pillars of the latter are lying every which way. The crater caused by the bomb there is so deep there is several feet of woter in it.
Though I carefully enquired, it was stated in every region that there were no soldiers injured for the simple region that there were none there. Nor did any present themselves at the hospitals, so far as is known, for repairs. the guild halls were filled with refugees, many of whom are refugees no more. A pathetic looking woman at the gate of the Ningpo place said she and her child escaped, but her sister and husband had not been found. Useless to find them now. A large number sought shelter in a cellar, and ten hours after the bombing they were still trying to excavate the entombed and without hope.
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