'A tip beyond Garden Bridge en route to the Setllement limits con firms expectations of destruction fpased on the huge cloud of flame fan amoke. which has rested over hat area for several days and. nights succession. Just over. Garden Bridge into Hongkew and _along Broadway are scores of closed and [shuttered shops. But "passing over Creek, where barbed wire wrestles block side streets, the des three circled in. from near' the French. Concession across the iver fo Pootung and then turned Back "to cover, Japanese War vessels further down as well as The Idzumo, Not until the raldfers had approached very close did the.tdzumo open fire with her anti-alreraft_ guns. To this fire she added green and white fares." The explosion of three Dobe was intermingled with the "arehie™ fire but if-any damage was done by either the bombs or the antiaircraft fire, it could not be seen last light. tructive effects of the last few days begin to creep on. the" imagin tion. Acres and acres" of Chin jose houses and shops are masses fof blackened ruins, "some. of! them stilt smouldering. "Whole blocks lot buildings from sireer to. street Ihave been reduced to piles of charred lumber and heaps of bricks with litre standing beyond skeleton frameworks [while wires. litter the road laying fraps for the unwary. The ruins of [Chapel after the 1992 trouble remain jan indelible memory: the ruins of HYongtszepoo are for worse for the [Aame-scorched district shows tigris of Jalmast voleanle heat "while everywhere there are Japanese sandbagged posts and defences indicating the Severity of the Chinese attacks which sulted "in deep penetrations. into that area.
Witre Damage Ends 'The Nenyang Brothers factory} and" a large area' around have]
Encountering the three bombers over Chenju, Japanese navel "planes, According to ihe announcement, shot Gown the Chinese craft.
Three of the six Chinese partie planes which "attempted an serial Bombardment of the Japanese "mili try. positions on Wednesday" night, were brought "down. by "accurate Machine gun fire, the Japanese ssu" Thorities here announces Ove plane, the announcement stated, crashed, killed ite three ocpanis, while the other we made {forced landings within the Japanese The Chinese planes, the statement added, - swooped -low over. the apanese positions in an attempt 0 strate the troops been desolated. Roughly speak ing, the property fronting the river Jon the Whangpoo side. of Broadway land Yangtszepoo Road isin Good shape. The principal damage "has been "done on the other side of the road where "some "square miles Daldings are in. tung. Strangely Jenough, the majority of the damage fends at Yangtze Villa. the residence fof the late "Mr. John Prentice, the [well-known shipbuilder, which was fence in the heart of the country. [Beyond that, litle. damage is seen as the city thine out.
Ait over the aren are Japanese posts, the ofoers and men showing extremely high spirits, although as the observer approaches. the actual ring lines marke. of strain on their faces are plainly discernible, but the methodical efficiency of the Japanese fallitary machine does not suffer in the inspection. So tervife have been the fires in the aren that many Japan ese bluejackets suffered severe burns, trapped. at their pasts among the blazing buildings surrounding them.
The. premises of the University of [shanghai were inspected. yesterday id appeared to have suffered ite damage. A few shells have struck some of the main buildings and there fare many broken windows but the [Gamage is considered negligible eu Sidering the fighting which has taken place around it.
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