HOLOCAUST AT CANTON
. FIRE FOLLOWS THE FLOOD REFUGEES ATTACKED BY ROBBERS . . ' 3y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright - Sydney, August 16. '' Tlio steamer Empire, which was: recently at Hong-Kong; estimates that ten thousand people, hi Canton perished by fire alone, including a thousand soldiers engaged in rescue work. Two thousand five (hundred shops were ; destroyed. ■ • *■„ Robbers attacked 1 tho •. starving escapees, shooting them down like aiiimalß when they found they were de- ■ stitute. .[lt was recently reported that disastrous floods had occurred in Canton. At the height of the flood a fire broke out and hundreds of shops.. The inhabitants were driven to the top stories, and, being -unable to escape, thousands perished.]'
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2542, 17 August 1915, Page 5
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109HOLOCAUST AT CANTON Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2542, 17 August 1915, Page 5
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