Shanghai, Aug. 19.
'A hundred Britons from Japan landed at the Wayside wharf yesterday after a highly exciting journey from the mouth of the Yangtze, For part of the way they were convoyed by Japanese destroyers, with a fight of planes covering their path, and the Inst stages were made, by a coincidence, "under cover of "the USS, Augusta's reassuring bulk. The arrivals told of widespread building destruction in the Woosung distriel. "Both Japanese ships—the Shanghai Maru and the Nagasaki Maru—docked at 10 o'clock and two hours later departed with at least several thousand refugees.
The foreigners were mainly mer bers of the SMP. police whose leave had been cancelled, and a sprinkling of women. They boarded the ships Nagasaki at 9 o'clock on Tuesday night, even then not knowing when ther trooping arrangements welld Aeroplane Forced Down in Jessfield Area Shanghai, Aug. 19.
An unidentified plane made a foreed landing in Jessfeld Park fat about 930 o'clock last night. Speculation was made as to when ther it was the plane that had Set fire 10 a block of houses in Haining Road a few minutes before, causing one of the largest fires of the evening. eave them room for passage. They eft at 5 am, and it was said that both ships had nearly 1,000, troops below. They were off the Yangtze mouth before daybreak yesterday morning and bad their first taste of war precautions when they found the Doat deck heavily sandbagged and received orders to don life bolts. "We wore in a blue funk," one of the passengers raid later. A Japanese destroyer convoyed them for a few miles and then another warship and 1 flight of six planes provided extra escort. Between the sca and Woosung at least thirty Japanese warships were passed, Destruction of Weosuns:
Everywhere were signs of shelling. Riverside dwellings were blown to matchwood and the Chapel Power Ca. building was riddled with holes. The big University of Shanghai buildings were intact and the Jardine structure appeared unharmed. When the USS. Augusta, with a brood of four seaplanes on her superstructure, pasted by on her way to moorings off the centre of the Bund the Japanese destroyer left the convoy which followed in the wake of the 'There were no coolles: on the Wayside wharf and the tying up was performed by soldiers. No passports Were asked for and no Customs' Tormallties were demanded. "All this was sweet and dandy." declared fan American girl, "but the heck of was that we had to handle all our own baggage."
She had been told by one of the crew that both ships would be mak ing. another passage from Nagasaki 5 pin. to-day and she imagined that the cargo would be soldiers and that the Shanghai loading would be another crowd of refugees,
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