The Japanese also claimed that 1 repeated repulses of the Chinese tacking on the Chapel and Kiangwan fronts "had discouraged them, they believed that the Chinese link bad been withdrawn about 500 metres in the Kiangwan sector. According to the same sources the: were no developments in the eastern and Chapel sectors, the latter sector including the San I Li and the Wang. Pan Li, both alleyways on the west-fern side of North Szechuen Road. Chinese shells have fallen in various. parts of Shanghai held by the Japan-fosse. The Japanese minimize the [damage done by these shells, stating that in nearly every case they fe short or wide of their objectives. Some casualties among—civilians, mostly Chinese, were, however, in-'Micted, especially inthe neighbourhood of the Hongkew Creek bridges.
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