"North-China Daily News"
Hit Three Times; Cathay, Palace, Chartered Bank Also Struck Shanghai, Nov. 1 'The sword turned the' tables on the pen with a vengeance early yesterday morning when the "North-China Daily News" took the brunt of a stream of shells from Chapel and won the uneasy" distinction suffering a more sustained strafing than any other important building in th~ Central District since Sino-
Japanese hostilities flared—up. Three big missiles struck its top storeys, one bursting through the west wall and nearly killing three Chinese, another exploding as it struck a steal balustrade, and the third miraculously passing through two windows more than 100-f1 apart and ending in the Whangpoo.
'A. dud shell splashed a yellow smear high up on the west wall of the Cathay Hotel, another pierced three floors of the Palace ' Hotel, ending up in the manager's bathroom, and three very live ones ruptured the superstructure of the Chartered Bank. Anderson, Meyer's building Yuen Ming Yuen Road was hit; three Janded on the roof of the Shanghat Commercial and Savings Bank in Kiangse Road, another fell harmlessly on the Yokohama Specie Bank Foot top and a dozen more endangered Navy Row. "A casually list of three Uighily wounded Chinese and two foreigners whose nerves for hours twanged like discordant fiddle strings, was a merciful let-off from what might have easily be a multiple tragedy.
Tronically, the shelling coincided with the release from siege of the Continental Bank godown defenders: and two witnesses of the actual explosion, who had thrown themselves. Aside from the screaming path of the projectiles a split second earlier, had no doubt at all that the barrage came from the combat surrounding" the Chinese citadel in Chapel.
The First Strafing A_member of the "North-China Daily News" reporting staff who was Quizzing the squirts of flame from machine-gun bursts and the flashes Of grenades and trench mortars beyond the Thibet Road Bridge, at ap-Proximately one clock, from the hewspaper's high roof top had the first terrifying taste of the fight of steel freight. A bolt from the black sped over the Chartered Bank building with the roar of a runaway express. Another came in its wake 1 Duds Hews" bulling on Sunday, the abave the "North-China
tyes one of ihe three she The Siicina"® Seth the Shell Eros fizzling sounds as of doused Grebrands reached the ears of the ying scribe from the Whangpoo, For three-quarters of on hour only the sound of distant small arms fire and tapping typewriters percolated ough the editorial emees.. Apparently the battery had had its hate Snd had then halved, At 145 am, the only newspaper roof in the world from which the aval, aerial and military operations of a major war have been watched for months on end was revisited, veteran accompanied the earlier observer, a man who had his own valuation on Oriental. artillery after weathering previous conflagrations. Accordingly, he cocked an car rather than an eye to the mile-away Aghting, Ju Chapel. Not so the ingenue to the East who reported that the battle had retreated from the roof top to ground floor obscurity from the watchers.
"The denial to that came in. the shape of another fearful scream, flash on the neighbouring building, a crash, and a giant blast of alr Which Aattened both men and possibly saved them from the next shell which struck the north-west
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