Wayfoong House and Police Station Pelted Several buildings and streets in the downtown area were struck by fragments of anti-aircraft shells late yesterday afternoon. Among the places hit were Wayfoong House, Szechuen Road, where windows of the Daido Kaiun Kabushiki Kaisha offices on the first floor were smashed, and the Central Police Station, Foochow Road, into whose compound fragments fell. No-one was injured.
Shells from Pootung fired a group of Chinese houses in Lane 182, Broadway, at 5.20 p.m., and badly damaged four of them. The firemen and police shortly afterwards liberated an elderly Chinese couple from an adjoining house where they had hidden for days because of fright, four days without food. Twenty five houses were gutted in Kung Yih Foong, behind North Szechuen Road:
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