"The Japanese also claimed that the repeated repulses of the Chinese attacking on the Chapei and Kiangwan fronts had discouraged them, and they believed that the Chinese lines had been withdrawn about 500 metres in the Kiangwan sector. According to the same sources there were no developments in the eastern and Chapei sectors, the latter sector including the San I Li and the Wang Pan Li, both alleyways on the western side of North Szechuen Road. Chinese shells have fallen in various parts of Shanghai held by the Japanese. The Japanese minimize. the Gamage done by these shells, station: that in nearly every case they fell short or wide of their objectives. Some casualties among civilian: mostly Chinese, were, however, it fioted, especially in the neighbor hood of the Hongkew Creek bridges.
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