The most harrowing spectacle was witnessed by Reuter's correspondent when he made a tour of Wuchingmiao, the slum section of Hankow, after the first raid had converted the area into a charnel-house.
The streets in the district, only six deet- wide, were fringed with poor hovels which collapsed like a pack of cards, burying their occupants as well as passers-by. Parts of bodies were strewn everywhere, which were gathered and piled up in heaps by rescue parties, More ghastly, however, was the occasional sight of an arm' or leg waving feebly from beneath masonry which was too heavy to move without adequate apparatus.
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