'The day's noise and excitement for spectators on The Bund was by no means over. At 640 pin. with not the slightest warning Chinese shells from Pootung landed somewhere in the' Wayside area, First 10 reply were small Japanese river gunboats ined along the Pootung banke opposite the Wayside wharf area and further downriver. The red flashes from their guns raised some question whether they were not Chinese shells or trench-mortar. missiles, but. this was quickly disproved as, one by one, every Japanese warship and transport, from Pootung Point to Point Island, and apparently more and bigger guns farther down the river, opened up on, Pootung.
Perhaps two miles from 'The Bund and nearly a mile inshore, though in the darkness this was the roughest of estimates, Chinese batteries kept up an intermittent fire, the flashes from their gun-mouths' occasionally plerelng the blackness of the area They drew a swift and terrible reply as Japanese projectiles were poured. fon them. It' could not be learned whether this: fire silenced the Chinese guns Jost night, but at 730 pam. the firing slowly "died away and" the right's quiet descended at last on the Central District.
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