'HREE men of the Royal Ulster Rifles were killed, two were seriously injured and several others were slightly hurt early last night when high explosive and shrapnel rained down on the Jessfield Park area during a severe bombardment in the closely linked Sino-Japanese combat just westward. Rifleman James O'Toole and three Chinese died amid the wreckage of a cafe posite the Park gates; Riflemen James Mahon and William Christopher Howard were killed when a shell burst beside the British advance outpost near.the Jessfield Station. Five of the killed and wounded men were those concerned in the heroic rescue under machine-gun fire of Chinese refugees on Wednesday.
The area known to have been swept by the bombardment reached to Avenue Joffre where the LS.S. Apartment building was struck and a deep hole was gouged in a neighbouring paddock. Tales of amazing escape were plentiful, the luckiest happening to a Mrs. A. J. Hughes, in her Great Western Road residence, who was just passing up a stairway with her children when the wall caved in below as a shell smashed through. This morning British military and consular authorities will undertake a full enquiry.
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