It was one reel of the picture of the Battle which is being fought in the Haskell Road ares. Range Road, from North Szechuen Road to North Kiangse Road, on the north side, is ruin. The houses are no. more; only the bare walls are standing. The roots have gone. Nothing is leit of the row of old and picturesque buildings, witnesses of a style architecture which Shanghai has Jong outgrown, except battered brick~ work—less than skeletons of what once stood there.
At thie Nozth Station end of Range Road there are blockhouse barricades, At the intersection of Range and North Szechuen Roads there is an. other barricade held by the Japanese, At Honan Road there is a British post, held when visited, by the Welch Fusiliers, "At the North Kiangse Road corner, half in a shop and halt sulting out into Range Road, there another British post.
From this post, looking beyond the gate which is on the north side of Range Road, can be seen the ruins of the once populous area of Chapel which extends as far as Jukong Road. It is populated to-day only by Chinese soldiers, who are kept on the alert by the incursions of men of the Japanese Naval Landing Party. the result of the incursions can be seen every now and again when a stretcher party moves slowly across Paoshan Road, carrying its groaning and bandaged' burden. towards the North Station Administration Bulld-ing, which appears to be the headquarters of the Chinese troops.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.