Yesterday's bombardment was the heaviest ever experienced Shi Japanese guns from the 250'rounds in the four hours preceding noon, By courtesy of the Japanese lofials, a reporter of the "North-
near the Japanese artillery during Chine 'Daly News" was allowed the afternoon and witnessed fung Jand manauvres at' the Japanese Naval" Landing " Party' Head= quarters, Mingled with the boom of the heavy "howitzers were the smaller Pieces near" Tientungan" railway} Htation. "More distinctive and yet
heavy Japanese machine' gun, fire monetous as datinctive, was the along the railway line toward. Da Tock Road. Av Chines Bike house la wich the directing the house in which the di command. was situated, With not fore than a casual glance the o¢- Jeupants continued about their busi-fess, although. ten minutes. later several marines "clambered up to estimate the damage done, Te was While shells from their own artillery whisked past and Chinese projectiles broke beyond them, Japanese observers in a reinforced {ower on another houzetop, continu-with their observations through telescope trained toward. Kiang Jwan and Woosung. It appeared as, were consumed by the flames.
'The loss of life is reported as being" inconsequential, inasmuch the majority of the' tenants with families had left during the week, The perimeter of the fire area, which ran in an irregular eclipse, commenced somewhere in the hsiang-kong arca, running to Kiangwan, then bre within a mile of the Public. Schoat for Boys, and then bisected "by the Markham Road Bridge and then sharply eastwards, through the Shanghai North Station, and'to a point veral hun Soptted and dotted ix this area
large proportion of the district was gandh fom Diswell oad. ravaged, "Included in the losses were factories, universities, privat Houses, shops without number, ant the usual type of Chinese buildings some old and some recently carte ind from the: Whangpoo fever, At ted. Smaller fires sprang up in-Kiangwan during the night, flames appeared. to, destiny" acco well "authenticated reports competent observers, the railway station, the factory opposite, par of the Futan University and adjoin~ ing. buildings, One of the largest fires of the
ju the large compound, oF afternoon broke out at 3.20 y'lon believed to be the Pagoda Si Hosiery factory, Whatever the conents, "they added material to tae lames, which soon "shot -ekyhigie through the roof. As the fired youred the interior, sections of the floor could be seen' dropping" trous surely can never be suspected of' ber.
"Reuter. though they were not aware that a time to time and finally the 290
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