Foreigner's Circuitous Trip to Shanghai A foreigner was appalled yesterday at the destruction along the western bank of the Whangpoo River from Woosung as far as the region of the Chapei Waterworks. He was completing his return to Shanghai from Tientsin having*been forced to follow a circuitous route to reach this city at all By boat he went from Tientsin to Dairen and from there to Nagasaki and, after considerable difficulties with "red tape" boarded the N.Y.K.
s, Nagasaki Maru which arrived here yesterday. flooded with refugee:
from Tsingtao which has been considered unsafe until recently. As a result, hotel prices, he said, have jumped enormously at Dairen. Wounded Japanese soldiers were abundantly evident, characteristically wearing their injuries as though they were medals.
He counted ten Japanese transports lying in the vicinity of Woo: sung yesterday morning, Japane: destroyers were also _profusel spread over the area and from all these ships enthusiastic cries of "Banzai" greeted the Japanese liner as she steamed into the Whangpoo River.
While not demolished, wharves, godowns and various other structures along the west bank of the Whangpoo were badly battered and broken up, apparently by shells and bombs. The worst destruction was seen at the lower regions of the river and, from the deck of the s. Shanghai Maru, it was possible gee the devastation resulting from heavy bombing just inland from the river.
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