Populer prices: $2.50, $2, 1.50 $1 and 50 cents Booking at Moutrie's and Lyceum As a result of the evening air-raids on Thursday, disastrous fires started at the Ye-Tsoong Rubber Factory and at two godowns belonging to the Wei Tung Cotton Mill, Lay Road, Yangtszepoo. The flames were extinguished by the Shanghai Fire Brigade, turning out an engine from Yangtszepoo Station. Several Chinese houses near the rubber factory also were damaged by fire.
Five visits from Chinese aircraft were reported during Thursday night and the early part of yesterday morning at 1022-1031 pin., 1129- 1136 pin., 1256-107 am., 139-146 am. and 240-247 a.m. Japanese antiaircraft guns fired briskly at the raiding planes.
A shell explosion was reported from No, 21/521 Range Road, injuring two persons, while shrapnel fell in West Hongkew Station compound in the 530 a.m. shelling.
Wounded in Hongkew One Japanese civilian was killed and six others wounded by Chinese mountain-gun and trench mortar shells exploding in Hongkew on Thursday night, a spokesman for the Japanese embassy revealed yesterday ex morning on the basis of a report prepared by the Japanese Consular Police.
The Chinese shelling, the spokesman alleged, was "erratic and indiscriminate," missiles falling over wide area including Haining, Chapoo and Quinsan roads.
The British-owned Pearce Apartment building, at the intersection of Chapoo and Boone Roads, was damaged, the spokesman said.
Chinese batteries in Pootung opened up on Yangtszepoo at 9.30 o'clock on Thursday night, but their shells did little damage as they fell mostly on ruins and in the Whangpoo river, according to the spokesman.
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