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JAPAN LAUNCHES
VIOLENT
ATTACK
'Sledge-Hammer' Blow In Hongkew Sector
CAPTURE OF PAOSHAN OFFICIALLY CLAIMED
OBJECT OF NEWEST
OFFENSIVE
Shanghai, To-day.
A sledge hammer attempt to shatter the Chinese troop concentration west of the North Sta- tion-Kiangwan sector was started this morning by the Japanese.
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CROWD
DISORDER AT MONGKOK
Apparently mistaken for a Jap
anese, a Chinese pedestrian
ON OTHER PAGES
U. S. And Hoover Bombing Germany and Sino-Soviet
Fact
Moscow Reinforcing Far East.
Army
Chinese Heroism at Woosung Japan Rejection of British Note
Predicted
The Wanchai Incident
was rushed to the police were sent from but no difficulty
in keeping the crowd and trol although th
Polic
ese crowd in a demonstration in that.
While planes overhead emptied their bomb-severely manhandled by a Chin racks, guns from the Japanese warships and artil lery on land pounded the Chinese lines with high explosive shells.
Chinese replied to s
Hampered by a lack of anti-aircraft guns, the the bombers with machine-guns and opened up against the Japanese land and sea forces with artillery.
Object of the Japanese drive is to strike northward with the proclaimed intention of at- tempting to isolate the Chinese forces in the Kiang- wan and Woosung areas. Reuter.
out
Shanghai, To-day.
The Japanese officially claim to have captured the walled town of Paoshan, north-west of Woo- sung.
Reuter
CHIANG MUST FIGHT WAR
OF MANOEUVRE
London, To-daying defeat, he might, with the help
Informed circles in London of General Geography, hold out for generally feel that if China bada long time.
ted Japan now, on would
RING ROUND SHANGHAI
As regards the Japanese side
is thought here put round Shanghai ring which • no Chin
out
In other wo wish to live 1932 ore
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Mongkok Road, near the Mong-badly kok Police Station this morning.
The incident apparently develop-
en to On
ed in somewhat simmlar manner as to the
did the Wanchai affair, by an indi
vidual shouting "Poison," and
Lame the
cusing an old Chinese woman of Facter poisoning her child.
that
She also was attacked, but cued by the police before the crowd groun could do her harm.
The Kowloon Emergency Unit
He
RE-STRINGING &
WE
work done
pervision of
the
troops, once allowed
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