Shanghai, Sept. 4 Wang Tean-lee, coolie, had an excellent post. from which to watch yesterday afternoon's lives ly attic on the Whangpoo River. He was on the fourth Noor the new Bank of China Building fand could soe almost every gun fash and hit Cor miss, as the case might be). with' superior ease. "After a. while Began getting Father hot for Wang Teatrlee and " exact 140 lock, Immediately Geatening report, We deck feet down with the utmost speed from his high perch. He started down what he thought was the Stairway but what wes ne tually the lit shaft.
Wang Tean-leo was picked up con the ground floor and. taken Lester Hospital suffering from Just above the Tdzumo played a noisy art in the choreus, but her fre Seemed to be searching for the Chi-Reso batteries inland. The. Tdzumo was Iikewiso stirring up clouds from {wo to five miles inland in her search for" the Chinese. batteries. "The two estrayers below the Tdzumo wore by no means silent, making in all four ships ting into the open country behing' Pootung Point 'One one Japanese sequting plan circled over. Pootung from until about 2 pam. reapanese naval pinnaces played important. part in. the. engage me Two of them, operating' from Tdzumo, moved, during the early part ip moored to a jetty: at Pootung: Point Theis main function was to signal to the warships, with wigwags, but they also "indulged in returning the fre of the. snipers whom they wore the best position to Tocate lnnaces 25. Japanese -Mrrines were reported to have landed Jat Pootung Polat shortly before noon. Hot fire from Chinese rifles: foreosd the Japanese landing party to with-Oran Twas later Japanese pinnaces were not yet through, however, and, accompanied
machine guns mounted fore and aft, Tan ove, mol aunch with tacked Pootung Point inthe Into Ballets into the Blaze The region was already a roaring furnace, but Into the buildings the Tauneh poured rifle five and machines tun bullets." The staccato "of two machine-guts was mixed with the ports of Filles from, the stilt infested Pootung Point. This begin 525 pan, Proiegied by stool defensive armour, the gunners fired clip atter lip at the undaunted snipers, who the Beginning of the engagement, ro-{ured fire, but. the Tauneh hel ite Position. Several rifle bullets ow Slong the Bund and Kiukiang Road the Pootung shore; together they put] the Japanese warships in 8 (urare of tetivity, the Tdzume, four destroyers, fand a transport ship firing in ray fuccetsion and in. unison. The chest ration was "a -swesome rather than harmonious.
'Successive spouts of water near] the Japanese warships followed i mediately by the sound of the ploding shells gave observers on the Bund' clear view of the marksman ship of the Chinese batteries in Pootung. The successive spouts appeared, when the Chinese. batter Were active, at intervals. of about tone second: "Considerable excl ment was aroused at times, spouts worked their way closer and closer to the warships. Suddenly a Rho [mist of debris appeared on the root of the "Japanese Consulate Building Indicating the frst hit at noon. "Two more ite in the vicinity of the! apanese Consulate building made before 2 p.m, but the mater damage did. not appear to be great.
At least eight Chinese uns were tive during the morning from Toland batteries, for the sequence of the spouts numbered up. to eight. A direct hit was made on a small Bonfighting. raft in the river, but the absence of much. damage 10. the vessel which continued "to float Indicated that the Chinese" shells ware not very destructive, For the Japanese part, the the warships divided Useir attention between Snipers along the Pootung bank and the inland "batteries, position une known. The destroyer alongside the wharf in front of the Japanese Consulate et go deafening salvoes oint blank range of not more than {oo yards into buildings on Pooking Point directly" across'from the Nan: king Rood Jetty. More noise war made by her guns than by those of the cruiser Tazumo. By 11 am. she had the salt godowns and odd bulld-"that vicinity" Blasing bile Not only was thie particular erate the objective of the Chinese, but any passing launch. bearing the Rising un emblem was shot at—this made uncomfortable for spectators. on the Bund. Six Japanese aeroplanes few overhead, but did not drop any bombn Tenewing their shooting the gun-person the "launch" doubled the Amount" of "ammunition. expended parent effect and destroyer' emphasized. their efforts with several shells. 'The engagement ended about ay rapidly' ay it began rain. 4 6 pin, everything was quiet
dine Ship's Courage 'A toll in the day's Aghting around Pootung set in at 2 pin. At 205 pam. the Jardine 8, Lee Sang our age ously "east off and sailed down the stroam past the Japanese, men= Gfwar with @ large load of refugees She appeared to get through the lin of hostilities: without suffering' any damage, for only, an occasional shot disturbed th atmosphere at that 'Not until afternoon did the Japan= ese bombers go. into action over Pootung' in. small formations, num bering up to eight at times, scattering bombs here and there, 'A feature of the day's battle was the scoring of direct hits by the Japanese destroyers upon a Pootung water tower. One' shell went clear through the upper portion and wat [cascaded Is torrents, A few moments for another. shell hit the lower section as though the Japanese were {Intent on emptying the tower of Its last "drop.
mid-afternoon -the Japanese had" doubled their' naval' strength round Pootung Point by. bringing up six more destroyers from various Positions along the Whangpoo iver, Three destroyers were placed. side side at the Consulate Whart and tree other destroyers took position att of the Tdaumo, Transport Fights Ward Just below: thie destroyer at_ the some wharf, observers on the Bund were surprised to see "a dapancte naval transport placed in position and to see. her fung as steadily as the other men-of-war. She concentrated her fire on the foreshore ae well, surring up clouds of debris and slart= ing. fires alittle farther' down the Smaller than a destroyer but built along the same fines, a little warship,
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