The Archive · 1937

Pootoo Road District

a SHELLING HAVOC

Sing Yue No. 2 Mill Badly Wit by Japanese Shanghai, Oct. 4.

check-up on the results of Saturday evening's shelling of the Pootoo Rond district by Japanese uns revealed "yesterday that one Chinese worker had been killed, in Mokanshan Road, twelve men and women wounded and heavy damage done to mill and other property.

Eighteen shells of varying calibre are known to have fallen in the istrict, 'The Sing Yue No, 2 Cotton Mill, 8 Robison Road, was especially' badly hit and has suspended "operation because of the damage done. The shelling started at about 520° pin, when the night shift at the mill Was taking over from the "day crew and there were many persons in the compound and on the streets, Twelve shells fell fon the mill "property and made Targe holes in walls "and in the ground. A comer of the effec build Ing was torn of and" three holes were made in the cast wall, 'The compound was pitted by the' high-explosive missiles used,

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