The Archive · 1937

SPECTACULAR SCENES

Four Injuries Reported as Shells Burst A Chinese plane was damaged and apparently brought down in the first raid for more than a week over Shanghai at 6.45 p.m. yesterday. Another plane engaged in the raid escaped, while the hail of shrapnel and tracers which greeted the raiders injured four persons—a Chinese woman standing near the Capitol Theatre, and three other Chinese who were taken to the Lester Hospital from various parts of the Settlement. One of the wounded was reported to be in a serious condition last night. There were no injuries reported in the French Concession, though that area, in common with the Settlement, was sprayed by falling bullets.

After a comparatively quiet day, curing which The Bund almost resumed its normal appearance, with coolies at work and the pavements

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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