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GREAT JAPANESE OFFENSIVE OPENS
Chinese Hold Ground In Furious Engagement HEAVIEST CANNONADE CHINESE CLAIM
OF THE CAMPAIGN
VIOLENT ATTACKS ALL ALONG LINE
Shanghai, To-day.
LOCAL CHINESE STAFFS SHOW PATRIOTISM
An indication of the tremendous wave of patriotism which is sweep
The much-heralded drive by the huge Japan- ese reinforcements which have just been landed started against the Chinese positions on all fronts ing Chinese everywhere is provided by land, sea and air this morning.
ADVANCE ON TIENTSIN
Paotingfu, To-day. 3 Three divisions of troops are now rapidly ing Tientsin, according to intelligence reports issue morning.
Japanese troops in the area are considerably outnumbered retreating slowly before heavy sistent pressure
by the many local staffs who are heavy losses at
In spite of bombs and shells, however, the Chin-voluntarily contributing a percen ese are holding their ground.
The firing is particularly heavy from Woosung, where the Japanese regulars are attempting to penetrate the Chinese lines with the support of a heavy barrage from their naval guns. They are en- countering a very stubborn resistance from the Chinese.
tage of their salaries towards var ious patriotic funds..
The entire Chinese staff of the A. P. C. in Hong Kong, numbering
Chinese claimt Japanese attemp
and hand-to-hand
ed round, the railway Own Correspondent.
dazz where the
ghting develop
hundreds, are to contribute five per with the scheme of cent cent. of the salaries.
the movement, eontr A special fund called The each Centre, will be
The whole Chiese "China Mail" and "Hong Sunday Herald” “are An acount will be started under one day's salaries each month
AP. C. Chinese Staff Refugees' Fund" is commencing from the first of August.
Four Japanese scouting planes appeared over Nantao, next to the French Concession, and drew this name with the Bank of China September to the refugees in the heavy anti-aircraft fire from the Chinese.
Although the A.A. shells burst all round the planes in puffs of white smoke, no hits were regis- tered.
In the meantime the Chinese artillery in Cha- pei and Kiangwan concentrated their fire on the Japanese barracks but without success, according to a Japanese spokesman.
The spokesman alleged that the fire which des- troyed eight N.Y.K. warehouses in Pootung, a cou- ple of miles down river from the Shanghai Club, was of incendiary origin. Reuter. UNPRECEDENTED CANNONADE
Shanghai, To-day.
Shanghai rattled to the greatest cannonade of the present conflict this afternoon, when it seemed that every gun in the area was pounding death and destruction into the front lines of both sides, while Chinese and Japanese aeroplanes were actively participating bombing incessantly.
The great flare-up followed the landing of large Japanese Army reinforcements in the sung area, and the Japanese announcements of impending offensive on a grand scale.
Chinese military reports this afternoon, claim
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and provided the staffs of the war zones in Shanghai and North South China branches fall in line China.
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