The sound ofconstantheavy artillery fire from the direction of "TTaziang and Liuhong and less heavy fire from the Kiangwan sector could be heard all over Shanghai yesterday. The distant thud of the guns was outdone during the morning as Japanese planes, in couples, circled over Chapei and the Markham Road and North Station areas and dropped a succession of bombs. The objectives of the planes seemed again to be the railway crossings over the Woosung line, and much damage appeared to have been done. Clouds of dust and pieces of concrete and metal could be seen shooting into the air after the bursts.
Chinese fired on the planes with machine-guns, the anti-aircraft guns which harassed the raiders the day before keeping quiet. Throughout the day there was no actual antiaircraft fire noted.
A number of fires were noted in the area behind Kiangwan and Yangtszepoo, mostly behind the Chinese lines. Japanese bombers seemed to be responsible, for they could be observed diving over the area and dropping bombs all round the flaming buildings.
In the foreign areas casualties were small, so far as could be ascertained late yesterday evening. A Chinese was wounded by a machinegun bullet in Burkill Road, near Peiho Road, yesterday morning, and another was wounded in Sinza Road during the afternoon.
The Chinese yesterday morning claimed that Japanese attacks on their lines had not been successful.
This did not, however, tally with the statements of Japanese spokesmen.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.