The.daily report for October 24 follows;—
Camps under inspection by Public Health Department Refugees therein Refugees vaccinated (Oct. Refugees inoculated announced yesterday. 2% kims from Nanziang.
Japanese troops were advancing in the south-westerly direction from Kwangfu, while Chinese were, according to the spokesman, retreating west and south-west of Tazang.
Chinese batteries in Chapei shelled the Hongkew district between 3 and 430 o'clock yesterday morning, but no one was injured, according to an Embassy spokesman.
A Chinese shell hit the third floor of the S.M.C/s Isolation Hospital, causing extensive damage. Two trench mortar shells wrecked the roof of a Japanese house on Quinsan Road.
Shells fired from trench-mortars and field guns caused extensive damage to the staff quarters of the S.M.C.s fire station at the corner of Woosung and Range Roads. One field gun shell fell near the Central District Primary School,
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