THE HORRORS OF WAR
BCENES AT A HOSPITAL DOCTOR’S HARROWING STORY THROUGH POOLS OF BLOOD United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright SHANGHAI, August 24 Dr. Agnes Towers, of Lancaster, resident surgeon at the Shanghai Hospital, who 'bears the brunt of the work of dealing with the injured, says the institution is more prepared now to receive sufferers than on August 14 when the first bombing of the Nanking Road occurred. "The hospital courtyard then was paved with wounded men, who were dumped anywhere while rescuers hastened out for more,” says Dr. Towers. "I had to rescue a little child who was stumbling through pools of blood from corpses piled on top of one another. The mortuary was overflowing Into the passageway. “We had suddenly to attend to 200 wounded men who could not be separated from the dead for hours. However, when the Sincere Company's store was bombed the wounded were laid out in orderly rows. “We have established a babies’ ward for unidentifiable children whose parents have been killed."
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20282, 26 August 1937, Page 9
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169THE HORRORS OF WAR Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20282, 26 August 1937, Page 9
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