Shifting to another theatre of fighting, the spokesman said the Japanese last night attacked the Aikuo Girls School position west of the. Shanghai-Woosung railway and slightly to the north-west of the Hongkew Swimming Pool They were repulsed but the area behind the school was heavily bombarded.
Coming to the scene nearer Shanghai, the spokesman revealed that at two to four o'clock yesterday afternoon Japanese artillery in Yangtszepoo started a heavy bombardment of Chinese positions along the North Station, The damage so far done, he said, could not yet been ascertained.
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