SHANGHAI CARNAGE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 43, 13 November 1937, Page 5

SHANGHAI CARNAGE

-Pres» 'AgBOCiation.j

Bombs in International Settlement •

JVILL JAPAN COME TO TERMS? *

. (By Teleernph-

" ■ Dunedin, tms Day. E&B&6 deseriptidh of the scenefc of ©itfiag© in. the International Settlefflefit . Shatghai bn Augiist 14 ahd AugUSt 23 ' Was given this morning by Mr G. e. Taylor, engineer of the Shanghai Elec- ' tric ConBtruction Co., who has arrived. kita ou furlough, H© Ktated that one bomb dropped on, th* N&nking rOad on the latter occasion killed 173 and injured 549 innOcent ▼iotifiw. ihe streets; he said, wer© literally packed with mutilated bodies. Tfc© gejietal dpinion among Settlement yelidents Was that the bomb was dtopped by a Ohinefse plane, being a cacfe of bad misdifection df the missile froM foo great a height to OnsUre an •deurat© aim. * In exfefiiiatioh, Mr Taylor said that the Ghinese bombers had had no ei* perience of this dreadful form, of warfare. On the other hand, the Japanese bombing of civiliafis was deliberate. Mr Tayldjr bebevfes that the war Will ond tdthin two months. The Chinose, hi laid, had piifc tip a Ivondeffiil ishow and the jApanese, nofc expefiting sixch Sresistance, ihould be ivilling to come to terms. Thi losseh 0n b6th sideS wero •norfiioiis, and if the campaign vrete ptiraiied ha. tHe Winter, Wduid be iii* •ealisnlable.