A "North-China Daily News" presentative spent an interesting day on Monday traversing the! battlefield from!
Siccawei down to Lunghua and wards the South Gate.
The firing during the day was of a sporadic!
ture, breaking out in occasional ts' with long periods of silfnes.
artillery was used and chine-gung. Our representative found Siceascei village crowded with Ising' in the road, covered over with a blanket, and tended by the French fathers. "'Oecasional shots could. be [er in this vicinity in the morning erd afternoon; but these must have cen "fired off by secident looters since the opposing forces proper were four or five miles from the' spot. The houses in the out. sFirts'of Siccawei village have beet Keoted by che soldiers. the furniture Victory Brand Cigarettes hundreds of Chang's defeated troops were to be seen in the village, without weapons or badges. jor any distinguishing—marks. 'These men were wandering around without any guard, and fraternizing. freely with the' allied soldiers. JOther bodies of Chang's men were locked up in a temple on the Ming {hong Read, and guarded in a normal Iway. Tronically enough, they were: [smoking "Victory" brand cigarettes Meanwhile, the army already re-[ferred to continued its. march on. the powder factory. Here were afew hundred more of Chang? men, lo these promptly.laid: down their ins and surrendered.
All this time fringe could be. heard som the direction of the South (Gate, and it now appears that [Change has gathered together a few!
hhis men to put up a last stand the Bureau of Foreign {it the far end of Route Ghi was expected that they would be routed out of there last night, how ever, which may account for the. during the day. Chi's troops are bivouacked all over the countryside bout 1,000 men of the 6th Division having camped on a piece of ground just off that stretch of the Aingor byjhong Road which leads from Shanghai into Lunghua: village. These men had with them a battery of, four small field pieces, -probably the
the previous day, six pounders used in the action"
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