About an hour later, the concentration of vessels were attacked from the river bank with field artillery, two shells bursting In the water a scant twenty yards away from the port side of the Cricket. These two shells were followed at short me tervals by two gun salvoes. At the yme time three large "Japanese bombers flew overhead and dropped six heavy bombs from a height of about. 7,000 feet, these bombs going wide of their mark, The merchant vessels then steamed upriver and when they were about a mile from the Cricket they were again attacked by field artillery, some of the shells landing near the gunboat, Just then the Ul-tated USS. Panay passed upriver anchorage 28 miles above Nanking, Again at three more planes carried out, dive-bombing attacks on the Cricket, dropping four bombs but doing no damage.
Yesterday morning at 8.20 o'clock the terrorists acted when three oF four men arrived at the school, tered the building and sought out the principal. One of the intruders, a Chinese "dressed in foreign-style clothes, produced a Mauser pistol and started firing at Mr, Woo. Bight high-powered bullets blazed from the weapon and the educator sank to the floor, mortally wounded.
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