At the precise moment a tug towed the s. Chung Woo out of the boom, opening the barrier across the Whangpoo for the first time since the hostility ies commenced, Japanese sailors in two motor sampans landed at the godown just beyond the French Concession-Nantao boundary an hoisted the rising sun flag over the building. Their banzais celebrated the last bit of actual fighting which Shanghai will see in this war, though there may still be minor mopping up operations throughout Nantao.
Throughout yesterday morning and the early afternoon three Japanese batteries on the Pootung shore—one on the San Pei wharf below the boom, with guns hidden behind bales of argo taken from the warehouses; another just above the B. & S. wharf; and another still further up river, in a godown with holes knocked in the walls—shelled the Chinese positions at Nantao Point at point blank range. The Chinese replied with machine-[gun fire. which echoed up and down the river but seemed to do no damage to the well-sheltered Japanese. wharf till a late hour, rendering the de a great deal of useful as-
Afternoon Lull sistance, Thousands of refugees Between three and four o'clock yes-poured on the wharf from the Pootung area, driven from their homes by the fires and the falling shells.
Fire Brigade eventually left one at about 10 o'clock yestermorning, and it was the opinion of those attending the fire that had the Brigade not been summoned nothing would have prevented the wharf from catching fire.
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