Few Bursts of Fire from Warships Complete quiet reigned in Shanghai a shot was 10. be fous fires which' had illuminated Hongkew and Yangsz0- poo the night before had die down, Ju the harbour there were no Japanese warships. Everything had. been cleared down river and the basin opposite the Garden bend was lifeless There were a few fires to be seen, on the far horizon, presumably. in connection with he landing of Japan= ese troops, " The Japanese were not expected to press. inland last night, but it was believed that they would take @ day or so to consolidate their positions and to prepare for the landing of still more troops if nee assary.
Quiet Sunday Nien their Jorge. force ashore neat Woo White the Japanese were putting
Sung, Shanghai enjoyed. a" compara: tively quiet night on. Sunday. The! howitzers near the North Station oe: casionally shattered the shiness, and foccasionaiiy "there. were. bursix North 'Szechuen Road and in'tha ad the Company to provide fo Waysiite district. Chinese troops still occupied the North Station, and near them the Welch Fusiliers' could be seen strengthening the sandbag em= placements and barbed wire -barricades which separate Chapei from the International Settlement.
The disaster at the corner of Nanking Road and Chekiang Road was not the only shell to burst in Shanghai yesterday. The roof of a house in Burkill Road was hit, but there were fortunately no casualties, The Japanese flagship, the Tdzumo, was back at her usual moorings yes: terday, after having gone down river towards Woosung the -night before, Apparently she had spent the night somewhere off Point Island, shelling behind the Chinese positions, Japanese air raids "continued throughout the day. Several heavy. bombing seaplanes ce-operated with the military inthe Woostng area, while" Japanese warships dropped shells into the Chinese lines. Raids were also made on the Kiangnan arsenal, where several bombs were dropped." "The wireless station Taziang was also. bombed, and. an unknown amount of damage inflicted, Fire at Tazlang 'A big fire could be seen from [Shanghai to have started at Taziang, while the Wutal Road, towards the Liuho Road, was being shelled or bombed by ihe Japanese, apparently, with the idea of preventing Chinese reinforcements from reaching. the hard-pressed troops in the neighbourhood of Woosung.
With things slightly easier in the Hongkew area, several Council Jofcials inspected Council property to see what damage had been done by shells, bombs, and fires. They. re= ported that the south side of the per manent camp at the Rifle Range had een completely wrecked by shellfire, but that the Russian camp remained intact. The Public and Thomas Hanbury school was damaged except for a number of broken windows, Darroch Rond and nearly the whole Dixwell Road area north of the Hongkew Creek was either burning or in ruins, There were a number of Japanese ships in the lower reaches of the Whangpoo, among them a submarine depot ship which tater came up river.
Attacks Repulsed Japanese forces guarding the northern and eastern sectors pulsed two separate Chinese alacks fon these fronts during the night of 'Sunday to Monday, Japanese naval authorities declared' in an_announcement at 9 o'clock yesterday morn-the shooting of a green signal fare in Chapel at 9 o'clock on Sunday night, Chinese forces along North Szechuen'Road attempted to advance but were forced back by withering, Japanese fire, the communique stated. Captured in' this combat were five Chinese heavy machine guns and 20 rifles, Another thrust in the vicinity Wayside Park by the Chinese 20th Division at 11 o'clock Sunday night was frustrated, the communique declared. The Chinese were claimed to have been pushed outside the Settlement boundaries in a vigorous encounter.
Incendiary shells, fired from Chie rrese positions. in the North Station fell near the Yalu Road and Thorni Road bridges early on Monday morn ing, None, "however, started any serious conflagrations, the communt= Qué stated, Shells did not fall in Hongkew, according to the announcement, Shells came down in large numbers about halt a mile to the north of the Post Ofce in North Szechuen Road, white Japanese destroyers were reported to be lying off the N.Y.K, Consular Wharf. Many Chinese re: fugees Toft Shanghai in ships charter by. Chinese companies. under British protection yesterday morning.
Japanese planes continued to bomb in the vicinity of ziang. Shells ¢x-ploded on Shanse near Peking Road In Soochow Road creek 25 yards tot Kinngse Road.
Japanese planes continued to bomb the Pootung side and a big. fire wa Feported in the vicinity of Dah Zan Wireless Station
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