Shades of August 14, the awful ness of that slowly dropping, bomb which skimmed the newspaper's root to bring tragedy elsewhere, was a pleasant memory to this strafing. It would end if a shell hit the parapet beside which the men were ering ing. tu a secondary ull, the veteran fed for a doorway, flationed out in 1 heap of flowerpots, but reached safety. His more nimble-footed confrere was on his heols. "It seemed out of the frying-pan and into the fire as a tremendous crash shook the building and a rush of fume-lader. air burst up the staircase, Three spectras covered in powdered plaster and dripping blood from glass cuts stumbled on to the eighth floor Jand~ ing. They stepped over the body of another Chinese unawakened by the explosion which had wrecked a room twenty feet away.
The strafing ended and a moment later a telephone message announced "the evacuation from. the Chinese stronghold. "Timely" was the word on both reporter's prlieularly palled Shell Examined One of the shells which struck the "North-China Daily News" but failed to explode, was removed by the Shanghai Munlelpal Police, and examined by experts. A report was Issued on the nature of the shal, which Is described as an unexploded shell of 75 min. weighing fourteen pounds and usually used for antiaircraft fire, but probably not in this ease, The shell was fitted with a copper driving band 1% inches from the base, and a yellow band "was painted 8 inches from the base, being 14 inches in width, The fuse was broken off, exposing a wooden plug containing the detonator.
The majority of the shells which struck buildings on The Bund and in other parts of the Central District yesterday were 14 1b, 15 min, mise There were few casualties, the streets being deserted at the time of the bombardment.
Mr. Eiji Wajima, secretary to the Japanese Embassy, yesterday called on the editor of the "North-China Daily News" to examine the damage done to the buildin
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