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...oasis of succor for Chinese, the "safety zone." At Shanghai year ago a square-bearded, black-robed, one-armed French Jesuit, Father Jacquinot de Besange, originated the safety zone scheme. Colorful, 60-year-old Father Jacquinot, aristocrat by birth, prevailed upon Chinese and Japanese military heads to keep the Nantao area, the old native city next the International Settlement, free of fighting and bombardment. This area, dubbed the Jacquinot Zone, sheltered 250,000 refugee Chinese. Last week, 100,000 of them still huddled there...
Presently twelve Japanese planes appeared over Nantao, a native quarter of Shanghai, hurled five bombs on Shanghai's South Station. Scores of natives, waiting docilely for a train to Hangchow, were caught unawares, blown to bits. The attacking airmen, obviously ordered to destroy the station, showed marksmanship almost as bad as that of the Chinese who bombed Shanghai the week before. Most of the bombs fell several blocks away on citizens jampacked in the section of Nantao containing the Bird Market, Willow Pattern Teahouse, other tourist haunts. At least 400 people, including 15 children under two years, were killed...
From China last week came the photographic story of another war, †the Sino-Japanese quarrel over what is now Manchukuo. Compiled by Dr. Joseph Yu. head of Shanghai's Nantao Clinic, it presents 87 pages of war pictures which Dr. Yu took with a Brownie, seven pages of advertisements (venereal cures, toothpastes, virility drugs, sun lamps). Because doctors work behind the lines, there are no pictures of actual combat, many of the wounded. Sample caption, in English & Chinese: "The Wounded Receiving Eatables...
...amounted to a definite lull, it was not without disquieting developments. An official Japanese statement insisted that more than 30,000 Chinese troops were massing around Soochow; that large numbers of Chinese snipers had been smuggled into Shanghai; that a Chinese incendiary plot to destroy the Japanese college at Nantao had been narrowly frustrated. Four new divisions of Chinese soldiers were reported to be proceeding from Chekiang to Shanghai. According to Japanese authorities, Chinese were transporting cement and barbed wire to Sungkiang for the construction of defense works...
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