Four platoons of British marines and bluejackets and 40 details of The Loyal Regiment were landed in Shang:
The engagement began with a systematic and leisurely bardment of Pootung by big s, probably from 50 large cruiser oft the Yangtze ath. The fla shes of the guns and the long time before the noise of the expl re ched listeners. on this side, indicated the guns were some dist:
ance away.
The explosions on the Pootung shore were sometime heard be fore the explosions of the guns which fired them. O Conjecture was alive in Shang! to what the bombardment meant. some quarters it was interpreted as a continuation of the aerial bombardment whi ich was begun with the object of in the afternoon, driving out the Chit troops who, with tron d taken positions wh the the 1 some hai yesterday morning from HIMS. the direction of Cumberland 8, Suffolk off 1 rifle explo Woosung the British gar he on the Bund vison here, Tu audition, a 3:7 howitzer in charge] "tow minutes later i was at_vieinity last night at 9 o'clock. reported of an officer and ratings from the }ihat a small Chinese vessel had fired Cumberland was also landed.—The} a torpedo, ut the Idzumo, which had party proceeded to the Racecourse} exploded in the river off the Band having been brought up-river by @/and may have hit the vessel in the British destroyer.
The Blue Funnel s. Moron with the '2nd Battalion The Welch Fusiliers will arrive in Shanghai this morning.
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