Artillery Brought [Into Use for First Time: Chinese Positions Shelled 'The truce which hus Kept the rain Chineto and Supanese forces Apart in. Chapet for: the-past. three dings ended yesterday' afternorh shen cota. proke out ates 'ACE UG nm, the Japanese, who had tien' mavinye up supplies. to positions all morning launched tack onthe Chinese ines after onnaisanee by two seaplanes, A vigorous artillery bombardment in which over 100 shells were aopptition Chinese positions was one. of the. main phases. of the Japanese attack, but both sides wore geriovsly engaged. Tye Chinese replied. with machine guns and Stokes mortars a dozen "shells dropping" in-the By min yesterday, the Japanese claimed yo have cleared the, dlatviet and put "the Chinese tonight but they dig not advance find occupy the territory, No. tacle was' launched. on the North Station. operations being. confined to east of the sation where itis reported the "Chinese suffered heavily. The Japanese losses. sere put down at ote billed and Volunteers Along No Man's Land White the Japanese wore attack-ting the Chinese in the eastern paxt of Chapel, members. of the Company and Shanghai Scottish, S.V.C., continued to hold the block: houses and barricades. along Boundary Road fronting the. station, but 'Were mot involved. A shell fired in the battle struck 'a blockhouse but did nothing. more than shower the Occupants with bricks. 'There were casualties. Last' night, these units wore moved out being re placed by the Russian Detachment.
Although. the fighting. yesterda did pot result in an advance for the Japanese i& helped them to, con-Ssolidate: their. front, line positions, The Woosung railway Tine stil forms.a steel boundary separating the; forces but. pro was made in the Kiangwan district.
The engagement waxed hottest about 4:20" pam. and again. at 830 Dan, the Japanese artery' threw over' large quantity of heavy shells from positions in. the vicin Hongkew Park, ""Tientunga nearer' the - railway, apparently without effect. "The artillery pos tom of the Chinese, somewhat west of Markham "Road station replied shooting mingled with' heay vigorous, "an sporade ud occasional "bursts of mashing runners.
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