Shanghai, Aug. 22.
Fifteen Japanese civilians were jured yesterday morning when bomb dropped by Chinese air raid-ere fell on Boone Road, across. the Street from the Towa Yoko Hotel. Two of the victims subsequently died lof their injuries.
the six/bombers and four Aght= {ing planes which participated in the raid, two, according to a spokesman the Japanese Embassy, were shot down. One of these, he said, crashed after being hit by anti-aircraft guns mounted on top of the Naval Landing Party's barracks on Kiangwan Toa The other was brought down by a seaplane attached {othe Idzumo, Aagship of the Third Fleet.
Bombs dropped by Chinese planes in a raid on Friday afternoon, ac-[cording to the offeial, hit a Japanese cotton mill in Pootung and buildings north of the Nanyang Tobacco Company, Broadway.
During yesterday's bombardment the Hongkew area by Chinese uns, shells, according to the official, Tanded on the Municipal School for Girls and the Yamato Hotel, Hannen Road. i The guns used by the Chinese, the spokesman said, were probably of 15 jem. calibre.
During last Thursday's Japanese raids on Nanking, "between 10 and }20 bombs were dropped on the building of the Military Academy, and a few on the General Staff building", the official asserted.
Yesterday's bombing resulted in the complete destruction of half a dozen uses across the street from the Towa Yoko Hotel. Houses on the opposite side of the street including the Towa Yoko had their windows [smashed by bomb fragments and re+ fire started in a block to the north of the New Asia Hotel and another was reported behind the west wing of the SMC. Gaol.
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