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...Shanghai, however, the navy was not only doing most of the fighting but at least half of Japan's navy was in it. Flagship of the combined fleet was the 37-year-old British-built Idumo with lynx-eyed Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa in command. The Idumo was moored opposite Shanghai's International Settlement, and ten days of bombing, shelling and one attempted torpedoing had so far damaged her but slightly. Sixteen miles downstream, where the Whangpoo River joins the yellow muddy estuary of the Yangtze lay the mass of the Japanese fleet, over 50 warships, including four...
...commercially and financially the New York City of China. North of Shanghai coolies eat wheat and speak an approximation of Mandarin. South of Shanghai coolies eat rice and speak Cantonese. Until 1842 the Manchu emperors refused foreigners the right to trade at Shanghai, but in that year a British fleet sailed menacingly up the Yangtze and by a treaty signed at Nanking five Chinese cities were opened for trade and settlement. Subsequently most important of them was Shanghai...
...Augusta (see map) so as to give maximum protection to the western half of the International Settlement where the remaining Americans and British were seeking safety. And the battle went on: a major engagement with approximately 100,000 Chinese and 60,000 Japanese troops involved, with the Japanese fleet of 50 vessels swollen this week to 82, not counting scores of transports arriving almost hourly at the mouth of the Yangtze...
Death of Freddie John. For a day or so a crisis that might have brought on U. S. and British intervention threatened aboard the U. S. S. Augusta, flagship of Admiral Harry Yarnell of the Asiatic Fleet. While bombs and high explosive shells rained down on the native city, while Chinese and Japanese soldiers and civilians died like flies in the oily glare of burning buildings ashore, a group of 40 seamen off duty assembled on the well-deck of the Augusta to see a movie. From somewhere a single 36 mm. pompom shell weighing about a pound dropped...
...Admiral Henry Ervin Yarnell on the cruiser Augusta, flagship of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet of some 40 outmoded destroyers, auxiliaries and spoon-shallow river gunboats; 2) the fourth U. S. Marines, a regiment of 1,050 men, which were reinforced from Manila by week's end; 3) British Vice Admiral Sir Charles Little commanding Britain's China Squadron; 4) nine hundred fifty British regulars, and a battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers hastily ferried over from Hong Kong; 5) about 1,000 small sallow French Indo-Chinese and Annamese soldiers; 6) small detachment of Italian Fascists...