Ankara, Jan, 3 The first rescue train, bearing 100 injured, arrived here yesterday from Erzincan. An officer of the Erzincan A. bomb landed next to the China Inland Mission compound at Lanchow, capital of Kansu, during a Japanese air raid on December 26, littering the compound with debris and breaking windows, declared Dr. F. H. Judd, of the China Inland Mission, in an interview on his arrival here yesterday by air from Lanchow after a tour of inspection of mission hospitals in China.
Japanese aircraft, according to Dr. Judd, raided Lanchow three days in succession, starting from Boxing Day, when the Chinese claimed that three Japanese bombers were shot dus. in an aerial battle above the city.
The raiders came in flights numbering usually 36 or 27 planes. On the first day, four waves of raiders at-garrison estimated that 98 per cent of the population of Erzincan perished. "Most of the officers and men of the garrison lost their lives," he declared, only those who were on sentry duty at the time of the quake; escaped. "I saw indescribable scenes of horror. A young woman covered her baby with her night gown and xan sobbing up a mountainside. A great number committed suicide after witnessing the deaths of all their relation:
At Erzincan survivors are still living in the streets. Many people were burying relations with their Own hands, but the large number of bodies everywhere was arousing fears of epidemics. It was believed that some were still alive under the ruins. Four persons were saved yesterday after eating earth to keep alive.—United Press, and attempted to throw another Overboard when the officers attempted to arrest them for smuggling Japanese wine into Davao, the "Manila Bulletin" reported today. The newspaper said that a complaint would probably be filed against the sailors—United Press.
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