That the Japanese had now landed sufficient men to make the Hongkew area safe was the gist of a statement made yesterday by the officer corhmanding the section of the Japanese Landing Party guarding Hongkew Lieut-Commdr, Gonshichi Mizoguchi This announcement came towai the end of a day of camp; quiet, when fighting at the "front in Chapei, Kiangwan,.and the eastern district was of a minor nature, p.m. Two Chinese biplanes of the pursuit type swooped down over the Idzumo and then continued westwards followed by the shots from the cruiser's anti-aircraft battery. Fragments of anti-aircraft shells fell in various parts of the Settlement and caused the death of three Chinese and the serious injury of nine others in a lane off Weihaiwei Road, near Moulmein Road. Among the dead was an infant, a boy, less than ten months old. One woman had both her feet blown off. All were taken away in a Fire Brigade ambulance.
Ait-raid signals were sounded at Central Police Station, the Chengtu Road Police Station and other places as the attack began, and all occupants sought shelter. and the principal excite me caused by bursts of anti-from Japanese warships Whangpoo, directed Chinese planes that passed overhead. It was' reported that one of_ these planes was brought down in Chapei, in spite of the rain and poor visibility which made shooting as difficult for the gun-crews as it did for the bombers in the planes.
The entire Hongkew district, the statement claimed, has been cleared of snipers by the joint efforts of the Japanese Landing Party, the Shanghai Municipal Police and the Japan-Sese Gendarmerie.
Japanese civilians were asked by the officer to "place full reliance upon the Japanese Navy and show calmness and restraint becoming nationals of a great power."
Two Japanese seaplanes at 7 o'clock yesterday morning peppered the buildings of the North Station and the Shanghai-Nanking Railway Administration With, machine-gun fire from an altitude of about 200 metres, the Third Fleet announced,
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