Chinese soldiers manning machinegun nests along the Nantao bund n mained as vigilant as ever yesterda morning in face of several steam launches, laden with more than 100 Japanese blue-jackets, which sh tied back and forth in the Whang-is if looking for a place to land. e statement added. nce of the blue-jackets about 11.30 o'clock yesterday morning was preceded by occasional shelling of Chinese positions across the river by a Japanese gunboat at the No. 12 buoy in mid.stream. The marines did not attempt any landing.
Earlier in the day, heavy gunfire was heard from the direction of Liuhong and occasional shelling was reported in the vicinity of the Japanese school on North Szechuen Road. The neighbourhood of the destroyed Chapei Waterworks on Paoshan Road also drew some shelling between 9 end 10 o'clock yesterday morning.
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