The purpose of all this shelling is not very apparent, Some two. or; three hundred shells must have been fired, and no one has been reported any the worse of it, 'They all seem to have fallen upon the hills and elds, Perhaps it should be put to' the credit of the Japanese that they. did not direct their fire upon the towns and villages along the coast, as they might very well have done. Tt was not even to cover attempts at, landing: for when these were made there was no shelling. The Chinese report that three attempts to land were made yesterday, but only by mall numbers, and probably they were more by way of testing the defences than meant to be seriously pressed: The Chinese claim that on the third attempt a motor boat with twenty men on board was riddled with machine-gun fire and sunk, and all on board killed or drowned,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.