Shanghai, Sept. 1.
'A foreigner was appalled. yester-aay at the destruction along the western bank of. the Whangpoo River' from Woosung. os far asthe region of the Chapel Waterworks. He was completing. his return to Shanghai from Tientsin having been forced to follow a elreultous route reach this ity at al.
By boat he went from 'Tientsin to alton and' from there to Nagasaki and, afte iderable aiMeulties {with "rod tape" boarded the N.Y. gs. Nagasaki Maru which" arrived here yesterday.
Dairen was flooded with refugees, mostly. from. Tsingtao which been considered unsafe until recently. 'As a result, hotel prices, thave jumped enormously' at "Dairen, 'Wounded' Japanese soldiers were abundantly evident, characteristically wearing their injuries as though they were medi He counted ten read ov ud rom a Tt may be well just once more to repeat the advice so often profferred these messages' to. dismiss imme-lately from one's thoughts all wild Fumours and concentrate on facts, bhard facts, and facts only. Following so quickly on the Incident involving His" Excellency, the British Am] bassador, the President Hoover affair of yesterday afternoon is, of course, Seeply to be deplored.
Reviewing the position to-day. [with the Hoover and other reports of Jast night's events duly considered, It'again'ean be pointed out that far as the Settlement is concerned the situation. remains as satisfactory as tean be expected. The Chapel area forthe immediate north of the Seltle-[ment was the scene of fighting during the night, shelling and aircraft bomb= Ing "both taking' place. Shells exogthern area of the but th® damage done was not very" serious.
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