The Archive · 1937

Vessel in Whangpoo

Shanghai. Nov. 4.

For the third time since the commencement of the current hostilities, the Japanese hospital ship America Maru was subjected on Tuesday night to Chinese artillery bombardment from Pootung, w spokesman for the Japanese Embassy announced yester~ day. morning.

'The bombardment, the spokesman said, began about nine. o'clock on. 'Tuesday night and continued for a period' of approximately thirty minutes, "Several direct hits," the spokesman continued, "were scored, resulling in the death of one sailor and injuries to another."

1 pill-box is being erected behind it of the soldiers who occupy the

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