Mr. Joseph Shen, Hawaiian-born American citizen and chief pilot of ithe China National Aviation Corporstion, was seriously wounded and tittle hope was held for his life.
Splinters from a bomb hit Mr. Shen in the kidneys, Mr. Shen was transported across the Yangtze River from the -elly to. the Canadian Missfon 'Mospital by a launch from the Amer-can' gunboat Tutuila, The American gunboat also sent launches to H.MS. Falcon, but the Yaunches returned after the British naval authorities informed the Amer-teans that they did not need any help.
One bomb hit the old American Navy canteen, on whose roof there ly-a painted American flag. The ean-teen, however, is no longer used bly the Navy and is a vacant building which has been turned over to the Chinese.
Foreign moval quarters believed that there was "no possible objective near" the south bank on which many, bombs were dropped. They said all the bombings on the south bank of the Yangtze were "evidently intended for the foreign community's benefit.
Bombs falling in the city area de~ molished 'a large printing shop and many houses near" the "Consulate Row."
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