Shanghai -
The war, which is no war according to the Japanese, goes on round Shanghai. There are said to be forty thousand Chinese troops engaged and they evidently have 'considerable military qualities. -The Japanese
division of regular troops has been arriving; and _their soldiers, sailors and marines must now amount to twenty thousand men engaged. They are now commanded by Admiral Nomura, who has taken the place of Admiral Shiozawa. Japan also has a considerable army in Manchuria, which entered Harbin on Friday, Feb- ruary 5th, and is extending her control over Chinese territory there. The attack on Chapei has made little progress, but the damage to life and property must be very great. There has been more vigour in the naval work where the Whangpoo flows into the Yangtze. The forts of Woosung there have been demolished, but apparently the village was strongly entrenched and the Chinese are able to threaten at that point the Japanese vessels approaching Shanghai.
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