The Archive · 1938

Gull Halls Demolished

\s far as Hankow was concerned only military objective in the of today's raid was the airfield. ave just cost come from a trip to sites of most of the bombs drop~ 1 in Hankow. Hundreds of men moving the debris to get at the d_men, women, and children.

Yuen Ling and Ningpo Hui ans (guild halls) were among the uctures demolished completely.

huge pillar of the latter are ut every which way. The crater ed by the bomb there is so deep several feet of water in it. though I" carefully enquired, it stated in every region that there re no soldiers injured for the sale region that there were none re. Nor did any present them-ves at the hospitals, so far og is own, for repairs. The guild halls ye filled with refugees, many of om are refugees "no more. A eric looking woman at the gate the Ningpo place said she and her escaped, but her sister and shand had not been found. Useless find them now. A large number ight shelter ina cellar, and ten urs after the bombing they were I trying to excavate the entombed without hope.

Muge Property Loss the huge property loss will not be iched upon here. By a doorway battered and broken thermos sk, useful once, and now as batter-as its owner, A few belongings ro being salvaged, and even as the les had lost a leg' or two, how like who had sat about them a few urs before, There is no military jective near any of the bombed "as, except the airfield, which is outside the city, The bombed us are all a part of the native city Hankow, densely populated with 1 shops, poor people and refugees. ar the Anhui Guild a bomb started serious fire, and 30 people died

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