Shanghai, Oct, 29, Modest heroes among the Ulsters manning posts J1 and J2 near the Jessiield Railway Bridge, described io a "North-China Dally News" re-porier yesterday how they rescued thirly wounded refugees from the ridge under fire during the general retreat on Wednesday. Volunteers from both posts, seeing the refugees, who had been walking along the rally way track, placed in a" helpless position, and caught between Chinese and Japanese fire, crawled out on the bridge amid whistling machinegun bullets, and carried the refugees {o positions of safety.
'A couple of British military lorries then conveyed the refugees 10 a Seltlement dressing station. Asked whether they thought the Japanese troops were deliberately firing on the refugees, the men replied that they did not' think they were aiming at the crowds of poor class Chinese Aceing along the railway track. 'The Sapanese were fung, they said, the Chinese soldiers' on the. oth side of the creeks, and caught the! Fefugees accidentally. Stumbling confusedly along over the railway sleepfers, the wretched refugees, weighed down with their belongings which they were carrying, could do nothing save themselves, They would probably have perished but for the gallant action of the British tommies who braved death to Jdrag them out of the line of murder-fous machine-gun fire. Yet the men The easternmost tip of the Chinese line is a sandbag post almost directly opposite a British post, at present manned by Ulster Rifiemen, on the fringe of Jessfted Park. 'The British line is not fifty yards away from the me of fire. "To the north of the Jessfield Railway Bridge, a sandbag' post formerly occupied by Chinese 'Row contains a section of the Japanese advance guard. Across the creek, perhhaps 100 yards away, the Chinese are In' occupation of "the "Toyoda. Mil until recently fying the British flag, having been used as a British advance Post.
An occasional Japanese plane zoomed overhead, evidently spotting {the Chinese positions, It was received
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