Wuchingmiao, the slum district of Hankow, which was bombed yesterday, presented an even more tragic appearance after being re-visited by Japanese bombers to-day.
Thousands of bewildered, homeless victims wandered through the streets, while tired relief workers were still engaged in digging out victims, both dead and alive, some so badly mangled they were better dead than alive, Reuter's correspondent encounter-a ten-year-old Chinese boy bearing the slight corpse of his mother on his shoulders. He reverently laid her at the feet of a hospital gateman and asked that she be given a proper burial while he searched for his missing brothers and sisters.
Reuter's correspondent then looked into a hut and saw three men sitting upright in natural attitudes, all quite dead. One was clutching a dead child, In one room of another dwelling was a pile of corpses, while in the next room a Chinese woman was unconcernedly cooking a meal.
Chinese reports claim that one Japanese bomber was brought down 40 kilometres from Hankow by Chinese pursuit planes after yesterday's raid.
It is estimated that the raiders came over at a height of 2,000 ft, and, foreign observers believe, they could not fail to notice the thickly populated Fleet, conditions of Wuchingmiao and the absence of any military objectives.
Meanwhile, fearing another visitation, anxious watchers scanned the skies all day long.—Reuter.
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