Planes esntinued to bomb Paoshan Road in the vicinity of Hsing San Road, the Commercial Press and the Water Towgr yesterday morning. A duction prohibited without permission. shell dropped in behind No. 176 North Chekiang Road but did not explode. 'There was no damage to properly and no one was Injured. 'The bomb: Jing of Chapel was discontinued at 11.20 am, Shelling continued during the early' afternoon in the vicinity of the Commercial Press and Water Tower. "A fire was reported in the vicinity of Jukong and Kwantung Roads, Towards 2 p.m. bombs were being dropped north of Markham Road yard and in the vicinity of the North Station. At 140 pin, a fire reported fo be caused by shells started at Cunningham and Elgin Road corner. One person was Injured.
'A later report stated that at about 1.30 pam. a shell exploded na house on Cunningham Road and killed one man while at 1.50 a shell struck the wall of the Shanghai Special District Court, rebounded to North Chekiang Road but did not explode and one was injured. Bombing of Chapel continued and various areas in North Chapel were shelled.
Fires were reporied at Dahtung Road near Chaotung Road and also AE [Chaotung "Road near' Kungwoo The following areas were also heavily shelled:—Dahzang; Cantonese Cemetery, west of Kiangwan; Jukon Rond at the railway crossing: th rollway north-east of Paoshan Water Tower; the Eight Character Bridge.
The area within a half mile radius of Liuhang, was also repeatedly bombed, Last night there was a line of fre stretching west from a point one mile south of Yanghang to Liuhang, where a large area appeared to be burning, During the greater part of Tuesday night, Japanese batteries laid a terrible barrage at Ssu-hsfang-loungmiao, 2,000 metres west of Lotien on the Lotien-Kiating highway." The barrage was maintained until two O'clock yesterday morning, about the time when their infantrymen were making their last" attempt before dawn fo rush the Lotien positions, Under the cover of the shelling, the Japanese engineering corps tried to bulld a pontoon bridge over a stream cast of Chiangchiache. The Chinese defenders who were deploy just across the river, watched the Drogress of the work until It was almost Mnished, Then a signal was given for the batteries behind them hurl shell after shell. upon the half-finished structure and its vicinity. The bridge has not been Anished,
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