Air raids crept up on Shanghai no less than eight times last night between 7 o'clock ahd 1.30 am. this morning, and the majority of them were over without any of the residents being the wiser.—Mystified observers on The Bund, accustothed to the spectacular fury With which all former raids were greeted, were at a loss to account for the absence of antiaircraft fire in quantity. It may have been that the raiders, apparently choosing a route over Pootung to avoid H.LJMS. Idzumo and her brood, had only the batteries in east Yangtszepoo to copp-with, or it may have been a change in tactics on the part of the Japanese. Searchlights scoured the skies from all parts of Hongkew, Wayside, Yangtszepoo and farther down the Whangpoo, but of fire there was little and that only for brief, far from sustained, bursts. Several bombs were dropped during the raids, one of which set fire to the former staff quarters of the Japanese-owned Yue Fong mill The outbreak was extinguished in an hour. Six houses in lane 449 Tinghai Road were gutted, and three bombs droped south of Baikal Road, with unascertained results. thousands of examples of the printer's craft. One of many picked up on The Bund was a triangular label bearing a lion as a trade mark.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.