THREE HUNDRED DEAD.
SHANGHAI WAR HORROR. BOMB ON HUGE BRITISH STORE. JAPANESE BLAME CHINESEFORDISASTER. TERRIBLE HAVOC AMONG MANGLED BODIES. (United Press Association.—Copyright.—Rec. 12.30 p.m.) SHANGHAI, August 23. Three hundred dead were carted away in lorries from the seven-storeyed departmental store of Sincere Company, a British concern, following the fall of a bomb. Five hundred people were injured. The casualties would have been worse but that the disaster occurred in the luncheon spell. Another "dud" bomb tell close to the British Consulate. The Tokyo Domei Agency quotes a Japanese naval statement affirming that the disaster at Sincere Company was due to bombs from Chinese planes Officials of the Shanghai Municipal Council also declare that the damage was caused by a bomb and not a shell as at first reported. All T e " ible havoc w *s caused. Mangled bodies are everywhere AH windows within a radius of a mile were shattered. Ambulance an ffi d C "ucc P o°urb g E^. 1 "* " *■ d ~ d A third shell struck the United States Navy warehouse BeHmgham and Abend, two correspondents of the "New York
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 200, 24 August 1937, Page 7
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