The Archive · 1911

Shells in the Foreign Concessions

FIRING AT HANKOW

The British concession st Hankow received special attention from the revclationary ganners on Monday, the "Central China Post." The yang bill battery, the Wochang city battery. and the battery by the river were all engaged at once, and their misdirected shells fell thick in the Concession. A number of launches were towing barges between Hanyang and Wachang. Apparently men and smmanition were being __trani ported, and although the Imper bad inde little inva al day it was possibly feared that they would interfere with this mancavre; hence the uproar. The fire was being directed towards the China Merchant's godowns and to the Troperilist battery on Coffin Hill, but neither of them showed mach riga of life. Meanwhile there was hardly freet on the Britich concession which did not get ite shell either on th in an adjacent compound. strack the Roman Catholic bospitel

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