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1937 Chinese flee as Japanese bomb Nantao
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2:09Now PlayingDate: 16th December 1937
Location: China
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION: Terror Strikes Deep into Nantao
CHINA: Nantao:
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Chinese flee to foreign settlements while Japanese Bomb Nantao, including civilians running in fear as bombs fall all around, swarming the gates of foreign embassy's, in mobs in street begging for food, trying to swim river to escape and handing baby off to soldiers
AEROPLANES - JAPAN Bombing Nantao, Shanghai
CHINA Nantos, Shanghai falls to Japan, Babies Burning Bridge, Chinese go to French Settlement, Chinese in Quagmire of Jihui Creek, Bombers, Chinese clamour for food. Shanghai flooded, Gen Iwane Matsui with Ad.
Sino-Japanese War; Military - Active; China
WWII, World War II, Second World War, War
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