THE CHINESE INJURED
Lancashire Doctor's Work HOSPITAL STAFF'S ORDEAL (Eeceived 26 8.45 a.m.) v SHANGHAI, Aug. 25. Dr. Agnes Towers, of Lancashire, who is resident surgeoji at the hospital Avhich bears the brunt of dealing with the injured, says the institution is now more prepared to receive sufferers than it was a week ago, when the first Nanking Toad bombing occurred. ''The hospital eourtyard was then paved with wounded who were dumped anywhere while the rescuers hastened out for more," said Dr. Towers. "I had to reseuo a little child stumbling through pools of blood from corpses piled on top of one another. The xnortuary was overflowing into the passageway. We had suddenly to attend to 200 -wounded who could not be leparated from the dead for hours. ^"When Sincere's store was bombed, howeyer, the wounded were laid out in orderly xows. We have established a babies ' ward for unidentifiable children jvhose piuquls liiue been killed,." ^ (
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 188, 26 August 1937, Page 5
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