Ambassador to China, lies at the Country Hospital, Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, His Britannic Majesty's Shanghai, seriously wounded by a bullet, when Japanese planes attacked the Embassy cars with machine-guns and bombs yesterday soon after they had passed Wusih on the way from Nanking to Shanghai. Sir Hughe was rushed about sixty miles to hospital and received an immediate' blood transfusion.
The bullet had fractured his spine, but it was thought that the spinal cord. was unharmed.
The other Ambassador Wounded members of the party had miraculous escapes.
Sir Hughe _Knatchbull-Hugessen. British Ambassador to China, who The following official statement was seriously wounded on his way was issued: from Nanking to Shanghai, yesterd:
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