Again, yesterday afternoon, Japanese planes bombed the Settlement near the Soochow Creek, killing ten Chinese and wounding over a score others, including five United States Marines. Other Japanese bombers strafed the Western outside roads area in the vicinity of the Shanghai-Hangchow Railway line, killing and wounding many Chinese and damaging over half a dozen foreign properties along Hungjao Road.
The bombing near the Soochow Creek started at about 230 pin. A few minutes later, two bombs struck in Markham Road outside the Wing On Cotton Mill and three others in the creek itself near the Settlement side, spraying high explosive over Markham Road. Other bombs from the same planes set fire to several buildings on the Chapei side, including Chinese ammunition depots, and probably killed an untold number of soldiers and civilians there. The. ammunition dumps and surrounding structures were still burning, with tremendous glares, last night The general vicinity is that of the Markham Road Railway yards and the Lienyi Cemetery.
"While hundreds of windows were broken and the walls of the Wing On Mill and adjoining structures were pitted by the bomb fragments, (Continued on page 10)
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