Wednesday.
The thoroughfares and country surrounding Medhurst College were on Tuesday the scene of interesting operations on the part of the units of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps. A very comprehensive scheme had been drawn up for the attack upon and defence of this position, and the manceuvres varied from the usual trend of such by the assault on all points of the defending position being executed simultaneously as far as possible. The units were not in a position to carry out this assault until a comparatively late hour, so that beyond a description of the scheme it is impossible to give, at present, a full account of the final phases of the operations being left for to-morrow.
The general idea of the operations was that the Settlement was in 4 state of siege, the garrison of Medhurst College having been driven out, and the position being held by the enemy (represented by the blue force). The object of the attack was the recapture of the pog-
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