"Fish," remarked the commander, turning to war, "have been fighting land fowl and the result has been most interesting. At first we were counting how strong were the enemy and then we tired of counting so w just shot at them as they came In wave after wave. Now the position h improved much that the ent settlement area and nearly wil extraterritorial are in anese roads hands. Even if we are fish on land outbreak; in the wide swept chaos of aerial bombing, in old bricks showing the raw wounds of machine gun bursts in street fighting; in entire buildings utterly demolished by big trench mortar shells.
At side streets and alleyways vigilant figures stood behind sandbags with eyes glued along their rifle sights. Woe betide " prowling sniper in this locality. G. S, lorries and cars dashed back and forth and always Troops Stand Ready to all for Shanghai Hongkong, Aug. 24 Preparations are in hand further to reinforce the British in Shanghai in case necessity. The 10,000-ton cruise Suffolk has left for Hongkong where she will stand by ready to the rifles of the guards pointed fore and aft and one felt in this unhealthy neighbourhood that those sly gentry, the snipers, had put the district into a very prickly heat of apprehension. And yet withal the trip was completely uneventful to the first stop, the Japanese Naval Landing Party Barracks.
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