Show i WE N CANTON AIR RAID MASSED PLANE ATTACK TAKES TAKES' GHASTLY TOLL j Teeming Civil Areas Are Scenes of j jAre Slaughter SHANGHAI May 28 23 INS In In a series of devastating air raids that killed an estimated 1 persons and wounded more a gigantic giganti fleet of Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese war pla planes s wrought havoc today on the teeming southern port of Canton and surrounding rt territories Among those killed were scores 1 of rescue workers struggling through debris choked streets to reach earlier victims I IThe The areas devastated inc included the populous residential district district dis dis- dis of ot Canton badly damaged when the Nipponese raiders dropped dozens of bombs in an effort to de destroy destroy de de- stroy the railway station Forty naval planes attached to the Japanese fl fleet et In Chinese Waters waters wa Wa- I participated in the raid The huge station of the Canton Kow loon rai railway way station jammed with travelers was signaled out for at attack attack at at- tack as was the station Two streets adjacent to the latter terminal al were completely demol demol- As the raids continued with more than bombs dropped foreign settlement authorities were forced to close the gates to prevent panic panic- stricken Chinese from completely overrunning the section Naval and volunteer detachments mounted guard A correspondent who visited the scene after the raiders finally departed departed de departed de- de parted found terrific destruction had been wrought Several huge craters were blasted near he said and scattered scat cat about were shattered torsos and limbs although ambulances had removed most of the casualties shortly after the attack ended Meanwhile on the central front according to Japanese authorities the advancing Japanese troops entered entered entered en en- the town of the stronghold to which the Chinese retreated some days ago when the theJa Ja Japanese anese captured Suchow |