Scores of the wounded were brought into the Settlement and the French Concession, where they were detained in hospitals. Two of the seven wounded lying at the Red Cross Hospital in Avenue Haig succumbed to injuries in the afternoon.
Flying over Pei-hsin-ching village, a total of thirteen Japanese planes, divided into four groups, created havoc amid a terror-stricken populace. Smoke and dust shot up, houses, almost every one of which as of the one-storey country style, re shattered, and refugees ran in all directions' as bombs in fou scattered in the village over a wide area.
Simultaneously another fleet of seven Japanese aeroplanes flew over Chowkachiao in the Jessfield district and dropped about a dozen bombs, reducing beggar huts perched on the river banks into shambles. in addition to destroying a fully-loaded ferry boat in the Soochow Creek, two stone-powder factories and a lumber One of the bombs found its mark on x row of three houses of poor construction at the Chenkadoo ferry. Five civilians, mangled beyond recognition, were found lying several yards away from the debris. The number of people buried in the ruins could not be ascertained.
Shrapnel killed a Chinese woman while she was washing clothes on a plank at the edge of the river bank, feet. dangling in water, jay still on the plank, her face being badly mutilated. On the opde of the shore, the body of a Chinese, apparently a refuges, was found still clinging to a bundle of luggage.
In Pei-hsin-ching village, two rows of Chinese houses and shops close to a small stone bridge were destroyed. No less than eight bombs were dropped on th ling a narrow street of about three feet wide, with mas-
Chinese policeman posted outside the yard was also killed.
tying a load of seventeen passengers, a ferry boat while cros: ing the Soochow Creek in the mity of Chenkatu, was blown to bits. All the seventeen persons were killed outright. A small group of refugees waiting for another ferry boat were badly wounded.
Shortly after the raid, every available fireman and policeman, together with those who had received civic training, were summoned to the
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