BOMBS AND MACHINE-GUNS.
BRITISH AMBASSADOR INJURED REPORTED TO BE IN CRITICAL CONDITION MILITARY ATTACHE ALSO HIT BY SWOOPING PLANE (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright.) SHANGHAI, August 26 The British Ambassador to China, Sir Hughe Knatch-bull-Huggessen, 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 was also 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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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20283, 27 August 1937, Page 7
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155BOMBS AND MACHINE-GUNS. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20283, 27 August 1937, Page 7
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