The Archive · 1937

Woman Wounded by Bomb

Among the refugees who arrived in the Settlement from Pootung y terday was a Chinese woman who had been seriously wounded by a bomb. She was landed at the Customs Jetty shortly before 3 p.m. and taken to Lester Chinese Hospital in a Fire Brigade ambulance. Her legs and back had been injured by bomb fragments, Other Chinese suffering from war wounds were conveyed to hospital from the western part of the Settlement and the outside roads area, Two men who had been struck by pieces of a shell were taken to the British Military Camp in Great Western Road and thence to hospital A man with a shell wound in his left leg was conveyed to Paulun Hospital from Avenue and Tatung Roads.

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