Planes Attack Li ner 50 Miles from Port:
Three Bombs Explode Near Her Shanghai, Aug. 31.
FOUR Chinese planes bombed the Robert Dollar s. President Hoover while she was on her way to Shanghai last evening, wounding seven members of the crew, two of them seriously and stunning three passengers.
'This startling' report was received in Shanghai at 6 p.m, from the captain of the ship which was at the time of the bombing twenty miles at sea and two miles from the Yangtze Entrance Light Vessel and about fifty miles from Woosung. She is now on her way! to Kobe and the United States Rushing immediately to the rescue, WAS. Cumberland, Magship of the Bilish China Fleet, was beside the stricken passenger tiner within an hour of Teaving her anchorage at Woosung. "Av surgeon was sent. on bontd the President Hoover who im= mediately operated on three of the
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