Two bombs released by the chinese airplane had struck at exactly four 27 p m. The mass of sweating and panting humanity was almost beyond control as it funnelled towards the bridge, which was a mere 55 feet wide. Two japanese sentries were nearly overwhelmed by the crowds and reacted with immediate reflexive brutality. One of them netted an old man and threw the lifeless body into the filthy creek below. This did not deter any of the other refugees who kept pushing toward the bridge in what they believed to be the safety of the international settlement. They could not know it, but they were now moving in the wrong direction, towards the most herrific slaughter of innocent civilians of