BRITISH AMBASSADOR
SEVERE BODY INJURIES JAPANESE AEROPLANE ATTACK FIRE FROM MACHINE-GUN By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received August 27. 1.15 a.m.) SHANGHAI. August 26 The British Ambassador to China, Sir Hughe KnatchbullHugessen, was motoring to Shanghai from Nanking when his car was bombed and machine-gunned by Japanese aeroplanes. Sir Hughe was injured in the stomach and was taken to hospital. . A military attache riding in the car also was hit. The attache, Colonel Lovat Fraser, was driving the car, which was flying the Union Jack, when an aeroplane swooped down and machine-gunned it. A bomb was then dropped immediately ahead. Colonel Lovat Fraser and Mr. Hall Patch, British adviser to the Chinese Ministry of Finance, who also was in the car, were affected by concussion. As soon as they recovered they rushed the Ambassador to hospital. It was found that a shot had injured his spine and liver. His condition is critical.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22818, 27 August 1937, Page 11
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