For ard in Kashing Road Shanghai, Aug. 20.
ITH both sides exhausted, after offensive and counter-offensive, Chinese and Japanese in the eastern sector of the fighting round Shanghai spent a comparatively peaceful afternoon yesterday, while fires caused by their fighting blazed merrily in the area between Ward Road and the river and in isolated sections beyond. The main Chinese advances into the Settlement were repulsed, and the Japanese, according to a statement by an official embassy spokesman, followed them to several kilometres beyond the Shanghai University, Big shells from Chinese guns somewhere in the west were bursting over the Whangpoo last night.
The Japanese have not been holding " continue line in the eastern district, and their positions have not been joined by barbed wire entanglements.
As a result there have been openings: between a series of "strong points" through which the Chinese have been able to penetrate to a considerable distance into the Settlement. The Japanese, holding their positions, were for some time unable to prevent these Chiness from pushing deeply into thei territory, but the Chinese found that an advance on a wide front was impossible, Enrly yesterday the Japanese sent reinforcements into the' dlatrlet, with Bombing by Japanese planes, pre-2 result that late last night the Chie sumably, continued to cause major hate had. been chased out of many conflagrations in the eastern, north of the salients they had occupied, and fern and northwestern areas' yester-the Japanese had advanced -north-day. "At 1.30 p.m. a straw hut settle-ward outside the Seltiement boundment at Penang and West Soochow Tries. in.-an_ enveloping. movement Roads was ignited and about 1,400 towards Woosung. Chinese still held huts destroyed. This fire was re-tone important gailent in the Kashing [Kindied at 730 o'clock and another oad "distsie, however, and. they 200 oF so straw huts were destroyed. claimed. that" the" Japanese com. the 'Shanghai Fire Brigade attended munications between the. Landing both fires from the Ichang Road Parly 'Hendquarters and' the forces
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