'All the way down to Chinkiang' the river banks bear witness of the: devastation of war, numerous wreck= fed junks, launches, huts and. lightfers being seen, but still Chinese fife ashore, "Chinkiang had numerous fires smoking among. the ruins. bul the smoke haze lying over the city made Int dimeult to observe There were many imers, presumably trans 'aL anchor in the harbour.
Kiangyin too late in the' of the 22nd to cross the boom. 0 we anchored there for the Lying against the north bank of the river is the wreck of the Chinese jetuiser bombed "and sunk by the' Japanese, She lies half submerged. one of the two modern cruisers the Chinese owned: and built only a ago by the Japanese" them-
We erossed the boom early in the morning of the 23rd. 'There was nothing t0 see, except little flags on floats now and again marking. the course, and the Cupetown, one A.P.C. steamer, and our' Sandro Sandri continued on to Shanghai. which "we hoped to reach that evening. We: reckoned without the weather: Fos. descended on us when we were about twelve miles onside of Woosung, We had to anchor there until about Gtelock when it cleared a little, and Wwe moved on to the anchorage at Woosung, where there appeared to be 14 fleet of various kinds of steamers fanehored, all, us far as could be observed. flying the flag of Japan, Cargo of Bombs!
When we were still some distance from the anchorage we were signalled by a small Japanese transport with' the request 10 go slowly, as she was full up with a cargo of bombs and desired no friction to be set up by the passage of our ship When. we anchored mong so many transports for the night, we had visions of some fof them behig bumped and the rest of us yoing up in smoke, Fortunately nothing untoward happened and: we were able {o leave the anchorage 620 am, H.MS. Capetown had remained anchored further up stream, We had left Kiukiang for Hankow provisioned for eighteen hours, but as things tumed out we spent five
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