As a result of the air-raid at midnight, the China Soap Works, Yangtszepoo Road, suffered considerable loss, Three of the sheds there were swept by fire and seriously damaged.
A short time afterward, a briquette factory at Dixwell Road and Broadway went easily up in flames. Little was left of the establishment after the fire had subsided.
Four Chinese country-houses were razed by flames in the neighbourhood of Yangtszepoo and Lay Roads shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday morning. A three-storey dwelling at 369 Yulin Road was gutted early yesterday afternoon, the fire giving firemen a stiff two hours" battle.
Two Chinese were killed and many wounded in the Settlement by anti-aircraft and machine-gun fung and much damage was caused over a large area by the missiles.
Anti-aircraft shell fragments fell near the Seymour Road Market, on the P.W.D, Depot in Markham Road, on the roof of 430 Chekiang Road, on Peking Road near Fokien Road, in the Lane 745, Sinza Road, at Yates Road and Avenue Foch, and at Ferry and Macao Roads. At midnight an anti-aircraft shell crashed through the roof of 13 Shanse Road, near the Soochow Creek, and exploded in the house. A Chinese male resident was seriously injured. 2 Machine gun bullets fell in Annam, Bubbling Well and Seymour Roads and in countless places in the district north of the Soochow Creek.
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