The war yesterday gave the China General Omnibus Company more than something to worry about. At 645 pr, one shell burst at the Jessfield Park terminus causing one of the company's employees narrowly to miss losing his life. Thereafter no busses were sent out over that route. At 5 p.m a'shell burst at Brenan Piece and then at 8 p.m. Bus 95 was badly damaged by shrapnel, being holed in three places while the driver was startled to find his cap pierced by a bullet. No-one in the bus was injured.
The home of Mr. A. J. Hughes in Great Western Road was the scene of a miraculous escape from the random shelling. As Mrs. Hughes passed upstairs with her two children a shell smashed through the north wall of the building and showered the trio with debris. The nose of the shell was found in the drawing room doorway. Three shells fell harmlessly in Rue Camille Lorioz; five in Rockhill Avenue; and six in Fahwah village near Columbia Road where one Chinese woman was killed and six men were injured.
Many more shells are believed to have fallen throughout the district, including that one in the apartment of Mr. G. de Santis in the lofty LS.S. Apartments.
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