Succession of Air Raids Lasts Throughout Night Huge Conflagration Caused Shanghai, Sept. 19. HANGHAI suffered the worst alf raids in its history last night when, from 6.50_p.m. to 9 o'clock, and from 11 o'clock to well after midnight Chinese planes rained incendiary bombs on the Yangtszepoo, Wayside, and Broadway areas; and judging from the huge fires blazing far out, set fire to many buildings well beyond the Settlement boundaries.
Chinese planes proved more daring than they have been up to date, zooming down from the brightly moon-lit skies and dropping their bombs from low altitudes.
Japanese anti-aircraft guns brought one of the planes down in the carlier raid, the machine crashing with a roar which was heard all over the Central District.
During the Tater raids Incendiary semi cou bose. bain evoe Waystde, vending showers of fames sparks up like oman candles. Avminute. after the bursts, dames ffaped up over the stricken areas, anda minute oF s0. Inter whole Socks were seen to be In lames, Numerous casualties were cause. the French, Concession andthe {emationalSettiement from the Halt Of shrapnel which was sent inter the Shy" after the raiders, Sheila from angtes—trom the Japanese ware he river and from "the Party Headquarters and Epparently from one of the wharves cur which the Japanese have. eat abe Ushod an ant-areratestalon-~ berat ver the foreign areas, while search-Tights wept the skies, Down fo Woosung 'The raiders were not satisfied with dropping their bombs Inthe. nearer eae, but swept down fiver to. Woo-'Sung' From the Bund the seareh-Tights of the: Japanese ships at the st Many Properties Burn in Eastern Areas Shanghai, Sept. 19, Among the properties damaged "the" incendiary. bombs last night, according (0 the Tatest In~ non Going. to prose, iawnsat Chaoufoong. and he' declared, "as we tore down the' Bund, over Garden Bridge and into the pitch darkness of Broadway. The trash of the gunfire was very near deafening and the alr was Spllt-Ung with tracers. Three times" Japanese patrols tried to stop us. They, Toust have thought us lunatics to be Funning that gauntlet.
"The nightmare journey lasted for sbout a mile and then we were com= pletely' stopped by dangling high ten-Sion wires and @ party of Japanese who most emphatically told us Clear out of the danger zone, Somers went on to investigate. 'The spot Feemed to be In the vicinity" of the NIC wharf near the end bend in roadway. "The fre. was nothi all, Nothing more, it seemed, th Jembers of where' @ bomb harmlessly to property the plane was Yanglszepoo and low trajectory shells and. bullets, some seeming to come from the Chinese in Pootung, were whizzing everywhere, We" were: about to turn tall for the. station when an incendiary - bomb" burst bout 60 yards away. In a flash our men were cringing against walls diving under the engine. Tt was a most terrifying sight, as. though the earth had opened up and squirted fire Yar and wide. Tt Janded In the roar at some. Chines bulld-ings; had "it struck the road sheet of flame. The shelling thick. There Wa
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