Bloody Saturday, August 14, 1937 – An Ostrich Loose on Nanking Road

Posted: August 15th, 2025 | No Comments »

The anniversary of Bloody Saturday – August 14 1937 – and the bombing of the International Settlement and French Concession. A dreadful day of death and destruction I attempted to recreate in my Penguin China Special Bloody Saturday. I missed this story though, apocryphal perhaps (?), from John Stericker’s memoir A Tear for the Dragon…

Seems as soldiers mobilised to deal with the carnage of the bombing along the Bubbling Well Road, they came face-to-face with an….ostrich….Not something that happens everyday on Nanjing West Road!

Sadly no photo, but it was reported….

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