small] scouting orniser Idzumo, rained scores.of bombs Upon Chinese troop trated on the Pootuyg side of the river, with the small plane swoop: ing down upon then from the clouds and machin them unmercicrash of the bombs was varied ally by the loud bark of a Chi d to lie stationed somewhere bey e boom which is) blocking the Whangpoo just China Merchants Wharf. No planes were damaged.
This action was the biggest of the though in other raids Japane: bombed the neighbourhood damaging buildings near th flew over the Hungjao e, it is reported th 1 Chinese of death, and_ vanished again into the as difficult to see how close lis were bursting. An in the Hongkew sector, how "North-China Daily rt side-slips until it hit th somewhere in the further Met or perhaps. he J that the pilot still seemed to control over the machine—ly enough to enable him to bring it town without wrecking it. No claim was made by the Japanese, however, that a plane had been shot down, Bombing of Pootung ing of Pootung by the planes began a few minutes nicolly a few minutes ad broadcast The believed to have come aft carrier Ryojo lying They had come in retaliate"
trench shells ap fired on the Pootung side,
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