While the Japanese were putting their large force ashore near Woosung, Shanghai enjoyed a comparatively quiet night on Sunday. The howitzers near the North Station occasionally shattered the stillness, and occasionally there were bursts of machine-gun fire from fighting near North Szechuen Road and in the Wayside district. Chinese troops still occupied the North Station, and near them the Welch Fusiliers could be seen strengthening the sandbag emplacements and barbed wire barricades which separate Chapel from the International Settlement.
The disaster at the corner of Nanking Road and Chekiang Road was not the only shell to burst in Shanghai yesterday. The roof of a house in Burkill Road was hit, but there were fortunately no casualties, The Japanese. flagship, the Idzumo, was back at her usual moorings yesterday, after having gone down river towards Woosung the night before, Apparently she had spent the night somewhere off Point Island, shelling behind the Chinese positions.
Japanese air raids continued throughout the day. Several heavy bombing seaplanes ce-operated with the military in the Woosung area, while Japanese warships dropped shells into the Chinese lines. Raids were also made on the Kiangnan arsenal, where several bombs were dropped. The wireless station at Taziang was also bombed, and an unknown amount of damage inflicted,
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