Considerable floods were suffered by Shanghai yesterday afternoon owing to the high level of the Whangpoo River and fanning by a strong wind, mainly from the north and northeast.
Hongkew the principal streets up to Seward Road were under water, causing great inconvenience to motor car drivers and pedestrians. Elsewhere, west of Chekiang Road, the water was the cause of some trouble to traffic but no serious The paper; states that 97 undamaged Japanese tanks were captured and that 50 additional ones were destroyed, 300 heavy and light machine-guns were captured, 27 Japanese aeroplanes brought dow: and great quantities of heavy Zuns,4 rifles, munitions and motor lorn captured. The Chinese air arm is stated to have been mainly responsible for this victory, the paper declares, over 109 Chinese planes having bombed the Japanese troops for two days. Over 1,000 heavy bombs were used. Captive balloons were used by the Chinese for the fret time, the paper concludes.—Trans-Ocean. effect was noted.
The highest level was experienced at about 4 pin, after which the water quickly subsided.
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