The raiders were first spotted as they followed the course of the "Whangpoo, and there were numerous shrapnel bursts over the anchorage of the foreign. warships, while tracers appeared to pass perilously close to their masts. The intense Japanese fire drove the raiders towards the west, and a Japanese anti-aircraft gun which had been hidden on the Pootung shore took up the banging, sending its shells high over the Set liement, In one of these bursts one of the planes seems to have been damaged, moving off towards the west and being seen by residents in houses towards the end of Avenue Joffre to be flying very low and in difficulties, while some even stated that it was on fire and coming down beyond Jessfield Park. It and where it landed could not be learnt last night.
The other plane continued down river to the chorus of guns, which grew dimmer and dimmer as it neated Woosung. No more bombs were heard to have been dropped, and it was not known last night what was its objective, though it was guessed that it might have been the fleet of Japanese transports tied up at the river mouth,
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