With one exception it was noted cly military and civilian observers, that Chincke artillery was woefully: deficient as compared with the that fof the invaders. At thst the Chi hose more than offset any advantage of metal which the Japanese had. A very large piccs situated At some unknown. position to thy Wes! of Marham Read, boomed out, the report of the shells exploding along Yangtszepoo, being very distinctly different from the reports of Japanese guns, Their smaller trench mortars in the neighbourhood of the railway compound "joined Sri. the chorus, Another of the same type seemed to belch "forth. fire. froma point several hundred yards inland along Paoshan Road from the. Settlement Dlockhouse, - Several 76's, it seomed'drom their concussion, must have wreaked considerable damage the ssoctay adjacent to. the Naval Landing Party Headquarters, option time after time, and] ions, once at 1 p.m, and again at 7 p.m. the look-out man hai inthe watchtower there felt them Coming. uncomfortably lose and de-Seended from his post, Road District, and several ambol-Many shells landed in the Harbin
tance calls were received. © Alto-ether the Fire Brigade ambulances from this latter Aisttict eight Chinese males and from. shell wounds, while another female. received bullet wounds in the abdomen.
'The Seventh Day Adventist Hospital' off Range 'Road, a hundred rds oF #0 from Hongkew Fire Station, was hit by a shell yesterday morning, It landed in a room fon' the thind floor, having entered URrowgh 8 window.
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