At about 430 o'clock in the afternoon, the open car in which Madame' was travelling, accompanied by Mr. W. H. Donald, adviser to the Generalissimo, and an officer, met "with an accident which might have had appalling consequences. A back tyre blew out when some distance from Shanghai. The car immediately got out of control, plunged into a stream by the side of the road, and overturned, throwing Madame Chiang Kai-shek and her companions out with great force.
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