Throaghout the afternoon rifle, pistol and machine gun fire could be heard in the Western district, this coming from Chapel. It seem: ed to centre between Markham Rond Bridge and the railway station, At about 6 o'clock the Russian armoured train which had been stationed at the railway station started firing at a sauce shop the west of the station in which there were seid to be a number ci armed Cantonese. The first shot of the three-inch gun made a direct hit and blew the shop to actically all of those inside bef: either killed or wounde The British soldiers who we. gvarding: the boundary in North Shanse Road and who were tal orter from the "North-C} y News" when the big gun wae said that earlier in the after-neon a piece of shrapnel fel] near their Post night it At
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