The attack which was expected early yesterday morning in the Yang~ tszepoo district materialized, but turned out to be, nothing more than another infiltration of Chinese. plain-clothes men and a few soldiers behind the Japanese lines. from where they sniped' and machine-gunned parties of Japanese on guard in the blazing isiriet. "At the same time Chinese attacked the Japanese lines at the North Station, at points in the Hong-district, and on the boundary at Wayside. Except for minor. gains here and there, the attack didn't appreciably affect the general military situation.
The Japanese navy joined in the defence, The Idzumo moved down river to a point where It could more conveniently pour shells behind the Chinese lines, and early this morning relumed to its old position, where it was again moored, this time with its bow facing up river.
'A feature of the night's fighting was the use by the Chinese of! several artillery batteries. Hitherto, with the exception of some pieces fired from a distance, the Chinese attacks have been supported almost entirely by trench mortars. On Saturday night. however, heavy field pieces came into action at the North Station. There was also Gring of an undetermined nature from Pootung. West of the North Che-Kiang and Haining Roads intersect tion there was a small eld battery which fired occasionally into the blazing inferno which was once the nearer eastern district.
That the decision to evacuate the Ward Road gaol had been taken not a whit too soon was proved by the heavy fighting which occurred in the vicinity of the gaol yesterday. There were a number of engage ments in the streets round the gaol, with the Japanese apparently trying shift the troops and snipers who; were occupying many empty buildings. in that neighbourhood. Rites, machine-guns, hand grenades, and trench mortars were brought' into use during the fighting, and considerable damage was done to property in the district.
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