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Show produced a poysor of water 100 ft. ahead of the ship and the -second was a direct hit. It s ruck the hurricane deck and penetrated the cabins and pnssaeeways, wrecking wreck-ing moat of the porthole glass in the dining salon. The huge glass dome over the grand stairway collapsed and glass was scattered everywhere. Many machine gun millets entered en-tered the portholes of the passenger passeng-er cabins and others struck the sides of the ship, tearing holes in lockers 10 feet from the point of entry after going through - steel plates throe-quarters of an - inch thick. Member of Crew Dies from Hurts in Bomb Attack BV MRS. GRACE SHKCKI.K.N (Copyright 111S7 By United Press ABBOARD S. S. PRESIDENT HOOVER, enroute to Japan, Aug. 31 l".i! Lionel Haskel, a member of the crew, died toda yof abdominal abdom-inal wounds that he suffered dining din-ing an attack of the ship yester day by Chinese warplanes. The seaman was struck by fragments frag-ments of an exploding bomb. Seven other members of the crew and several passengers were injured but were told that only one other than Haskell was seriously ser-iously hurt. Staff doctors of the President Hoover and the medical crew from the British cruiser Cumberland which was nearby, treated the wounded after the bombardment. The planes dropped about six bombs on or in the vicinity of the President Hoove-. The first one |