Refugee Crisis in Shanghai – November 1937 – Chapei Burns as Japanese Attack

This picture appeared on the front pages of American newspapers in November 1937 – it was taken by an American cameraman close to the Japanese troops storming Shanghai’s Chapei (Zhabei) district after the August 1937 attack on the city. It shows clearly the level of total destruction wrought in the Chinese portions of Shanghai by the Imperial Japanese Army in the winter of ’37…..as a result 150,000 Chinese refugees crossed into the International Settlements in the ensuing six months….