The Archive · 1937

Day's Shelling

Occasional shelling marked the morning yesterday in Paoshan Road fand along the Woosung railway line. There was also shelling on the railway line west of North Station and bombing near Peoshan Read, A number of bombs, estimated to have been a dozen, were dropped In the vicinity "of the Commercial Press building, and sounds of hand grenade explosions could be heard from near the Water Tower in Paoshan Road.

During the early afternoon the area west of the North Station was again shelled, as was the Markham Road railway yards vicinity. There was bombing again in the neighbour Ofeial Agures released in Shanghai yesterday by the Nanking military: authorities regarding Japanese acroplanes shot down or damaged during the month of September by the Chinese air force and anti-aircraft duns, claimed 48 planes destroyed and sixteen damaged.

the bombardment of Hongkev and Wayside by the Chinese batterie= in Pootung on Thursday evening, ten shells fell. Little reports of damage were received, except that Hoagkew Police Station report the wounding of one man ina Japanese hotel in Minghong Road and a shell hitting the Japanese quarters of the station Hiself without inflicting any casualties

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