The Archive · 1937

ADMINISTRATION BUILDING SCARRED BY BOMBS, SHELLS AND FIRE

Two months of Japanese bombardment, capped by incendiary bombing on Tuesday, has wrecked the eastern wing of the North Station Administration Building, only finished latterly upon the ruins of the structure smashed in the war of 1932.

Correspondents and cameramen who visited the building yesterday during a lull in Japanese activity, found it well and truly occupied by about fifty men of the 88th Division who did not complain of their life of almost perpetual concussion,

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

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