Hongkong, Nov. 26.
ROASTING the tide of incoming refugees, Reuter's correspondent this afternoon toured the border of the New Territories, the Chinese side of which is now completely in Japanese hands.
On the British border road, shrapnel scored in several places, while on the dividing bridge over the Shumchun River, on the Hongkong-Canton highway, a shell struck exactly in the centre.
It was here that a platoon of the Middlesex Regiment had a narrow escape, several shrapnel splinters striking the dugout in which the British soldiers were sheltered. Climbing the intervening hills, overlooking the border, the correspondent witnessed the burning of Shumchun village, from where an occasional rifle shot echoed.
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