'With an explosion that _reverberated throughout the Central Dis trict shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, a bomb, dropped from Japanese aeroplane, struck a corner of the Yee Tsoong' Tobacco Co's lant just downriver from Pootung Point. A terrific cloud of smoke shot high into the alr and from The Bund it looked for a while as though the China Printing & Finishing Co's large Pootung plant had been hit.
The larier company immediately sent two foreign representatives to investigate, and It is understood that the latler reported that no damage was done to" the company's. plant.
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