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...separate area, eventually enlarged to a long strip of mud flats and pestilential swamps on the elbow bend of the Whangpoo River. Here separate concessions were established by Britain, the U. S., France. The French Concession has remained a separate entity, the other two combined in an International Settlement governed by a mixed commission to which other nations, including Japan, were later admitted...
...souls. Just outside the city at Hungjao airdrome (see map) occurred the incident which started the war. There two Japanese sailors were reported murdered early this month, whereupon Japanese Admiral Hasegawa promptly demanded indemnity and the withdrawal of Chinese troops to a distance of 20 miles from the International Settlement. When the Chinese expressed distaste at being ordered out of their own country, the Japanese piled sailors ashore to reinforce their permanent garrison and the fighting began...
Concentrating their forces last week in the Hongkew section, the Chinese drove down towards the river through the eastern extension of the International Settlement, until the Japanese warships opened fire to support their forces on land. Across the river on the right bank other Japanese troops tried to push back Chinese defending forces. Down from the Bund through this crossfire Americans were ferried to the mouth of the Whangpoo where ships picked them up to carry them to sea and safety. Meantime Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell placed the U. S. S. Augusta (see map) so as to give maximum protection...
Pride of O. K. Yui was the city's $8,000,000 Civic Centre, a group of white marble buildings as imposing as anything in the International Settlement. Last week they were shelled to pieces by the guns of art-loving Admiral Yonai. Nearly half of Mayor Yui's great city was in flames and many thousands of his citizens were dead, but O. K. Yui has a chance of becoming a far greater hero than Mayor Wu ever...
Ward Road Jail. What claims to be the largest prison in the world, the Ward Road jail, capacity 8,000, stands on the edge of the Japanese part of the International Settlement under crossfire from both sides for over a week. Shells crashed right into the building last week, killed eight prisoners in the cells, wounded 70, drove several others insane. Volunteers from the International Settlement last week finally arranged for the prisoners to be evacuated in busses to the outskirts of the Chinese city. A morning's load of 500, guarded by British and U.S. armored cars...