Tragic Result of Shooting In Settlement Several Chinese civilians, including three women, were wounded yesterday afternoon in the course of shelling of Pootung and the Whangpoo River from Japanese warships in the vicinity of Woosung.
The bombardment d which lasted nearly half an hour, started at 4.35 o'clock, when the first shell fell in Pootung at a point fairly well inland, across from Tungkadoo. The second and third shells hit the river near the Nantao side and sprayed shrapnel oe the waterfront, narrowly missing sev eral persons there. Altogether about fa dozen shells fell during the bomb-erdment, Huge waterspouts were caused by the missiles which hit the Whangpoo, Three Chinese women victims, with their legs seriously wounded, were ferried across the Whangpoo from Pootung shortly after the attack and taken to the Settlement. They were veyed by ambulance to the Lester Chinese Hospital, At 10.30 o'clock yesterday morning a Chinese man and a Chinese woman were removed from the vicinity of Great Western and Edinburgh Roads to hospital, suffering m bomb wounds,
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