Pictures just received showing scenes of a recent air raid on Shanghai by Japanese aeroplanes. The two Chinese children seen on the left of the top leftpicture had a miraculous escape when the Nantao South Railway Station was bombed from the air. Blown from the platform on to the track, they were covered by a sheet of iron, but their parents were both killed. Top Right, Chinese Boy Scouts and young Red Cross workers attending to dead and wounded outside the railway station. More than two hundred. civilians, mostly women and children, were killed and wounded. Below, Right, all that remains of a once-prosperous village just outside Shanghai.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 18, 14 October 1937, Page 8
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108Pictures just received showing scenes of a recent air raid on Shanghai by Japanese aeroplanes. The two Chinese children seen on the left of the top leftpicture had a miraculous escape when the Nantao South Railway Station was bombed from the air. Blown from the platform on to the track, they were covered by a sheet of iron, but their parents were both killed. Top Right, Chinese Boy Scouts and young Red Cross workers attending to dead and wounded outside the railway station. More than two hundred. civilians, mostly women and children, were killed and wounded. Below, Right, all that remains of a once-prosperous village just outside Shanghai. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 18, 14 October 1937, Page 8
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