At 10 pam. on Thursday the Chinese Red Cross hed brought back to Shanghai altogether 15 wounded soldiers and two wounded civilian These were immediately treated surgically by the staff of the Red Cross Hospital. It was not expected that any more casualties would be brought into Shanghai last night.
It is now at last possible to obtain military passes to go to Nanziang; until Thursday no foreigner except the railway officials, had been Iowed to go even as near the fighting as this. But there does not appear to be much advantage in going, me access to the front itself is still strictly barred and the only available news of the fighting is in the form of communiques, which turally give only the Chekiang side of the encounter.
According to one foreign observer, whose judgment is exceptional, the fighting in the centre is not' and cannot be of a very serious nature. The troops employed here on both sides are of the worst possible quality and they have not yet really. come to grips.
It seems more than probable that, considering the nature of the ground along the railways, all swampy rice fields, over which fighting is practically impossible, both the rival Marshals have put their worst troops here. If we are to see serious fighting it will be on the wings, particularly in the West, over the Great Lake and towards Huchow and Kashing.
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