The Japanese were still in occupa tion of Broadway from Wayside to the Garden Bridge, according to foreign observers who visited the district yesterday. The. Chusan Road market was described as a wreck, bomb from a Chinese plane having landed on it during Friday's alr raid.
The streets showed evidence of the force fighting which had been going, fon the night before. Between. 1.45 and 330 am. the Japanese launched fan attack on the 'Chinese who had tered through their lines. 'Tanks and armoured cars were used, ud light artillery was brought into' Though driven back in. seve places, the Chinese, however, ma aged fo hold their positions in near-all sectors.
Early yesterday morning there was engagement between Japanese and Chinese in the neighbourhood of Ward Road gaol, the Chinese fight-from behind the gaol and the Japanese fung from positions front of the gaol.
At 4 pin, yesterday the sound of regular heavy firing brought those Who are still in The Bund area the windows, to see HLLJ.MS. Idzumo loosing oft the big guns in her tor-ward turret against' a. point inland from the Pootung shore. The steady, though not rapid, fung continued over twenty minutes, and observers noted smoke rising in the neighbour hood of the Pootung Road, a mile or so in from the river, other ships opened fire at the time, the only other activity coming from three Japanese planes who flew firing. over the area towards the end of the
Further activity on" the ground! must have been noticed by. the planes, for it was not long before two of them took up the task of bombing the same region. Zooming down from a considerable height, these planes landed their bombs on the identical spot which the Idzumo had been hitting, huge clouds—of smoke and dust rising into the air teach time, After a few bombs had been dropped, the planes flew off in the direction' of the Yangtze River Just as sunset coloured the few clouds in the summer sky.
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