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...clear sounded after each long siege, the populace staggered out from the city's catacombs, sick from fatigue and hunger. None had done much sleeping; few had eaten anything, except perhaps a piece of fruit or a dry roll or peanuts bought from peddlers at the dugout mouths. Peasants were prevented from supplying markets, Government officials had to suspend vital work, laborers could do nothing after raids but gorge and go to sleep. Citizens tried to leave town, but were caught by new raids before they could get away. Chungking's foreign newsmen were inconvenienced when the Press...
Under the silent city, waiting for the bombers in the half-light of the world's largest dugout (estimated capacity: 30,000), hundreds of Chinese died. They died not of bombs but of suffocation, in mad frenzy, as they clawed and tore at each other to fight their way to fresh...
...longest (five hours) air raids in Chungking's three years of experience, the dugout's ventilation system had failed. The yellow vegetable-oil lamps had flickered out, one by one, for lack of oxygen. The thousands within had grown restive, then in panic had tried to force their way out all at once through the narrow twisting slits in the rock. Last official count of the dead: 461-a full half-season's toll in a single evening...
What made this modern Black Hole of Calcutta particularly painful was that Chungking is the only city on earth with sufficient dugout protection for its citizenry (400,000), that this dugout system had been considered death-proof, that the municipal-built dugouts had won the people's total, unquestioning confidence...
...Dramatic Adolf Hitler officially received the French surrender in: 1. The village where Marshal Foch was buried. 2. Railroad car where Foch received German surrender in 1918. 3. Fontainebleau, where Napoleon abdicated in 1814. 4. Versailles, where German Empire began in 1871. 5. Dugout where he was wounded in World...