On April 28, five seaplanes came over, and from 830 to 9.30 am, subyeeted the ely to a very severe bombing. Both ends of the newly constructed Ling Gyiao ing the main branch of th from city to Kongtong were and. a No resistance ut any kind was wrod to the planes; but with savage ruthlessness they dropped a total of 30 bombs on shops and the fish market, side of the entrance to the but accurate figures available reveal that out of 44 people taken to the Hwa Mei Hospital, eight died, either the way, oF just after admittance; and 36 severely wounded are bei ired for From the debris of the collapsed and fire destroyed houses, 30 bodies have so far been removed, und identified at the city morgue.
Several junks were capsized. by bombs that fell in the river number of persons drowned is est mated at over 70, It is teaved that east 200 persons Just their lives, and {great blocks of civilian property we ment these appear to have been th lives of the planes. "The consensus of ion is, of course, that the favouring ty destroy for what possible nel deliberately, they tither side of the Bridge Incendiary bombs—makes the object cir visit a mystery. Again one as tu say it was either poor marks-hip or sheer murder. Needless to say, the trek to the country has already begun, and it is thought th: several thousands of people will have left the city before the end of the day. They are wise people.
To sit still and. be subjected bombing with no defence excep ims house one lives in is perience calculated Strongest of 1 people on the graduate girl nurses and the little student nurses, some of them no more than seventeen or eighteen, carried with their' duties or helped patients to gather together in the supposed comparative safety of the inner hall of the hospital. Pulses were Thigh, and some faces were pate, but smiles and cheerfulness predominated all through the terrifying ordeal,
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