Chinese Snipers at Pootung Point Cause Start of Bombardment and Machine-gunning Shanghai, Sept. 4.
PUGET on Shanghit's doorstep yesterday, the flashes and violence the quiet that the city had enjoyed for many days.
thunder of innumerable guns shattered with persistent Six Japanese naval vessels in the immediate vicinity turned the full force of their anger upon stubborn Chinese snipers hidden in buildings at and directly behind Pootung Point, and Chinese batteries. They must have fired hundreds of shells before the wrath of their guns subsided towards nightfall.
1k was a rude ending to the Bund's return to normal trafic conditions thousands of people and long lines of] Imolor cars were hstlly cleared into Tess exposed areas by the SALP. and SV.G._ The undeclared war had again] ome mich too-close for comfort and {he Bund, about 800 yards from one of the main Japanese targets, was no] place for fae civilians, Far from merely a Japanese bom-erdment, the day-long" engagement aw dogged retallalgn from. Chinese uns, big and small, in Pootung. twas started by the hot harrying fire of Chinese snipers beginning at a.m. which proved intensely annoying If not Gamaging' fo the 2ézumo. and her brood: of destroyers.
"To the sporadic fire of snipers was added the heavier shelling' from] Chinese batteries well inland fror
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