(Continued from page 5) appeared and ran up their flag on the bridge opposite that street. Thence onward to the portion of Nantao opposite Avenue Dubail. street fighting and bitter hand-to-hand combat marked the retreat of the Chinese. On the far side of the biz compound opposite the Concession power station, nearly 1,000 Chinese occupied sandbag emplacements and shot it out with the Japanese who had taken cover in buildings to the west and south. The bitter fighting was taking place only about fifty yards from the Concession in a locality where the definition of the boundary was primarily a matter of local knowledge. It was during this fighting that the observers in the power station were mistaken for snipers. For about fifteen minutes, machinegunners concentrated on the supposed sniper post and as soon as the firing ended many hundred Chinese soldiers broke cover, rushed for the wall separating Nantao from the Concession and clambered to safety. French police officers said that that at one period the arms of about 700 men were piled in that area. These Chinese defenders who chose to fight on moved deeper into Nantao.
For hours afterwards Chinese soldiers dribbled out of houses beside the Concession. and surrendered their arms.
2,500 Come In By midnight last night it was computed that 2500 Chinese soldiers had surrendered. They were interned in a concentration camp at 1020 Avenue Joffre and until a late hour last night that area was swarming with Shanghai Chinese. Another camp will probably be formed today in Rue Camille Lorioz The weapons of the disarmed men form a gigantic pile at the headquarters of the French Police. Early this morning absolute quiet reigned in Nantao westward of The Bund. inferring a complete evacuation of the area following military orders for the surrender which were issued at 7 pin Stray bullets yesterday claimed many lives, including foreign and Chinese, in the French Concession, along the southern boundary of which fighting was going on through the day between the Chinese and Japanese forces.
Up to 530 pin. sixteen persons were killed ud twenty others wounded. Chinese detective No. 356 of the French Police, was killed.
Four foreigners were among the wounded, the rest being all Chinese. The foreigners were Messrs. Amettler, Frenchman of the Concession Tramway Company, and Sindberg, a Danish subject, both of whom were [watching the war with Mr. Stephens, lat the intersection of Avenue Dubail and Route de Zikawei. of Messrs. Amettler The condition and Sindberg was not serious.
The other two wounded foreigners were Russian members of the French Police, Likorieff, who was hit whilst on duty at the intersection of Route de Zikawei and Route Pere Robert, and Popoff, who received his wound whilst on duty at Route de Zikawei, near Avenue Dubail. The others were hit in different districts of the Concession, mostly in the area of Route de Zikawei and Avenue Dubail.
In the Settlement, a Chinese was hit by shrapnels at the corner of Avenue Foch and Chungking Road, at 534 pin. Taken to the Lester Chinese Hospital, the man was pronounced dead
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