The huge property loss will not be touched upon here. By a doorway lay a battered and broken thermos flask, useful once, and now as battered as its owner. A few belongings were being salvaged, and even as the tables had lost a leg or two, how like those who had sat about them a few hours before. There is no military objective near any of the bombed areas, except the airfield, which is well outside the city. The bombed areas are all a part of the native city of Hankow, densely populated with small shops, poor people and refugees. Near the Anhui Guild a bomb started a serious fire, and 30 people died there. Cofüns everywhere, and of the cheapest kind, mostly donated by organizations established for the purpose.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.