Show It Kwilin Razed Rale By Nip Troops By SPENCER MOOSA Aug 6 t The rI J The once beautiful city of ot was sacked by the Japanese with a thoroughness s comparable to the theRoman theRoman theRoman Roman sacking of Carthage It was was' was reported Monday while at recently liberated Iterated officials listed OOOO of the Chinese population dead ead or missing once a city of ot was 85 ravaged with a fury reminiscent cent ent of ot said a dispatch from m the tie former provisional capital of at written by 0 O WI W I Corre- Corre Correspondent David Chandler Tho The report asserted that fiat Chinese Chinese- residents of at that hat southern province city Ity were killed or r disappeared a d I during six ix months of at Japanese oc- oc No o details were given A A. simultaneous Chinese central news new dispatch said Mid that up to Julys July end more than 1000 civilians had been killed in the Yangtze port lort of western Japanese bastion in central China The re retort re port tort said the Chinese died of poisonous pois- pois onous Injections forcibly adminIstered administered adminIs- adminIs ered by the thc Japanese who said maid they hey were were Inoculations against meningitis iUs At which the Chinese reoccupied July 27 J 3 Japanese a 8 P ant ane a e squads for 20 days before they fled systematically set let sections of oc the big city afire Traitors In Inthe Inthe inthe the city Chandler wrote were given Chinese for every building they destroyed Even the trees tree lining the main street treet were scorched and dead The modern bull buildings ing lavish hote hotels hotes s sand and beautiful shops were in ruins The only buildings left standing in n the entire city were those which the Japanese u used ed as headquarters and had no time Ume to destroy Everything Everything Every Every- thing else every else every building and every coolie hut hut was waa a IL mass cf or rubble A handful of people who remained re TC- during the enemy occupation occupation tion lion were found huddled wet and hungry along the river banks and under shattered half buildings A Chinese officer estimated e. that two thirds of ot the city's city population left eft when the Japanese approached la last ast t year Many others warned by ay l leaflets dropped from the air sir cleared out after the Japanese occupied occupied occupied oc oc- oc- oc the city Only people who were too poor to travel remained |