| The metal remains of a wrecked plane loaded onto a Chinese Railways wagon, c.1938 |
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The remains of sampans on a river after being bombed by Japanese aircraft, c.1938
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The ingenious method of protecting buildings from bomb blasts - layers of bamboo screens atop buildings. The screens of bamboo poles would explode the bombs and absorb the blast before damage could occur to the actual buildings. Canton c.1938
Canton was bombed both by the Japanese and later by American bombers. During the latter raids, our Missionaries who were interned across the Pearl River at Honam, were confined for some days to barracks for their own safety. |
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A further scene of aerial bombing damage to sampans, most probably around Canton, c.1938 |
| Chinese searching through rubble for injured after an aerial bombing attack by Japanese forces, c.1938 |
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Chinese Red Cross workers and soldiers carrying an injured person on a stretcher across rubble after an aerial bomb attack, c.1938 |
| The wounded being taken to hospital on a cart, and attended by two Nurses, c.1938. |
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A bomb crater full of water, giving an idea of the force and extent of an aerial bomb blast, c.1938 |
| A map illustrating bomb hits (marked by small circles) along the main Canton to Hankow railway line running diagonally on upper part of map, and the Mission Hopital itself in lower centre which scored more than one direct hit, causing minor blast damage, 1938. No staff or patients were injured. The School within the Mission Compund had already been moved to Portuguese Macao for safety reasons. |
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Members of the (Christian) 'True Light Red Cross' carrying out a medical drill. |
