by Chinese At 11.20 o'clock last night Chinese planes again came over the Whangpoo for the fourth time in the evening. So far as could be learnt no bombs were dropped, The planes ted with the usual fusillade aircraft shells, which burst high over the Settlement, spattering the buildings in the Central District with bullets.
Later in the evening it was believed a Japanese plane took the skies, for a loud explosion from the neighbourhood of up-river. opposite Nantao, could not be otherwise accounted for.
Three brisk Chinese air-raids over the Whangpoo River occurred in quick succession earlier last night. The arrival of the planes caused Japanese. warships and land positions to discharge anti-aircraft guns with great rapidity and persistence The sky, during all three attacks, was dotied with the explosions of anti-aircraft shells and streaked with red tracer bullets. During the third attack a bluish parachute flare was, for some reason, released over Pootung. It is believed that several bombs were dropped, without, however, hitting their objectives. The planes likewise escaped the hectic firing from the ground.
Will Fight On "If the whole of the Occidental world is indifferent to all this and abandons its treaties, we in China who have laboured for years under the stigma of cowards will do "our best, We will try to fight till we win or till we are really beaten to our broken knees even if our good earth with all its history and cares is steeped with blood, swept by fire "Perhaps you can hear over the radio the noise of the cannonade but hidden from your hearing (though I hope ringing in your heart) are the cries of the dying, the pain of the masses of wounded, and the tumult of the crashing buildings. And from your sight is hidden the suffering and starvation of the great army of wandering terrified innocent homeless ones; the falling tears of the mothers and the smoke and the flames of their burning houses. Goodbye everybody."
In introducing the speaker to the radio audience, the Foreign Minister, Dr, Wang Chung-hui, stated that "Madame Chiang Kai-shek is the bêt fitted speaker on the subject of Japanese aggression, as she is not only the wife of China's Generalissimo but is most active in organizing Chinese women for Red Cross and relief work."—Reuter summary and Central News.
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