Meanwhile fresh Chinese units continued to pour into Ishing and Changshing to guard the Hangchow-Nanking highway.
Japanese warships in the Yangtze and Hangchow Bay further shelled Kiangyin Forts and Haiyen respectively. Japanese attempts to land at both places were repulsed, according to a Chinese report. No fewer than 600 shells were fired by Japanese war vessels on Kiangyin Forts in a single bombardment on Tuesday afternoon.
Japanese aeroplanes again rained bombs on Tangyang, Chinkiang, Wusih, Ishing and Changchow. Chinese anti-aircraft defence works have been further strengthened in Nanking.
Finding Chinese positions to [he north and south of Taihu Lake strong, Japanese forces were utilizing steam launches to bring their units to the western shore to cut the Hangchow-Nanking highway, according to a Chinese message received late in the afternoon.
Several hundred bluejackets, loaded in about 30 launches, landed at (Continued on page 6)
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