The Archive · 1937

Pootung Fires on Hospital Ship

Direct Hits Made on Japanese Vessel in Whangpoo For the third time since the commencement of the current hostilities, the Japanese hospital ship America Maru was subjected on Tuesday night to Chinese artillery bombardment from Pootung, a spokesman for the Japanese Embässy announced yesterday morning.

The bombardment, the spokesman eat, began about nine o'clock on Tuesday night and' continued for a period' of approximately thirty minutes, "Several direct hits," the spokescolitinned; "were scored, result-7 in the, death of one sailor ang injuries "Lo another."

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