Shanghai's two great luxury hotels located in the International Settlement, the Cathay and the Palace, were both made ta rgets for devastating aerial and ground bombrdments as Japan's invading armies blasted away at their Chinese foes entrenched in and around the Queen City of the Orient, and subjected every important building either in the native city or in the area populated by foreigners to the fury of their guns. These two graphic pictures taken after air, navy and army gunners and bombers had hurled tons of explosives into the stricken city, show entrances to the Cathay (Right), and the Palace (Left). choked with debris and pock-marked with shell and shrapnel scars, after both had been hit. Deaths of civilians in the International Settlement have risen into hundreds as the undeclared war rages on, with both British and United States warships also under fire.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 19, 15 October 1937, Page 6

Shanghai's two great luxury hotels located in the International Settlement, the Cathay and the Palace, were both made ta rgets for devastating aerial and ground bombrdments as Japan's invading armies blasted away at their Chinese foes entrenched in and around the Queen City of the Orient, and subjected every important building either in the native city or in the area populated by foreigners to the fury of their guns. These two graphic pictures taken after air, navy and army gunners and bombers had hurled tons of explosives into the stricken city, show entrances to the Cathay (Right), and the Palace (Left). choked with debris and pock-marked with shell and shrapnel scars, after both had been hit. Deaths of civilians in the International Settlement have risen into hundreds as the undeclared war rages on, with both British and United States warships also under fire.