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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 23, 1937.
NANKING BOMBING
ESTIMATE OF CASUALTIES RENDERED IMPOSSIBLE
;
HOIHOW AGAIN NIGHT PASSES WITH BOMBARDED BY NO FURTHER ATTACK WARSHIPS
Canton, To-day.
Another warship bombardment of
Nanking, To-day.
PAOTINGFU TROOPS EXACT HEAVY TOLL
Tientsin, 2.15 p.m., To-day.
It is officially admitted by the Japanese military headquarters
severe
In spite of fears of further air raids, Nanking that all attempts to penetrate the Chinese prepared defence spent a quiet night.
lines round Paotingfu have The opinion is generally held, however, that broken down and that Hoihow, during which two destroy the Chinese capital will probably be subjected to losses have been suffered in suc ers stood off the harbour and shell-repeated raids in an effort to break the morale of cessive infantry assaults.
More than 100,000 Chinese ed blindly on the town for twenty Chinese resistance.
troops are manning the first and minutes, occurred on Tuesday, ac- Accurate estimate of the killed and injured second lines, which have been cording to official reports which have just reached Canton.
yesterday is impossible, since all casualties were prepared for some weeks past, with deep entrenchments, pill- Three warships took part in the quickly removed during the raid, but it is believed box machine-gun nests and sur- er, which sailed into the bay and that only with the exception of the Hsikuan re- prisingly efficient support lines, engaged in 2 sharp duel with the fugee camp, the casualties in other places were while it is known that strong re- inforcements have been pouring Shui-Zeng Fort, while troops on small.
into Paotingfu as a reserve, in-
..
attack, one of them a light cruis-
the beach endeavoured to rake the warship with machine-guns.
Even at the Central Kuomintang Headquar-dicating China's determination Two destroyers outside the har-ters, where five bombs hit and demolished a build-to defend Paotingfu at all costs. bour, shelled the town indiscrimin- ing, only one was killed and four injured.
ately.
STOPPED AT TSANGCHOW
Similar halting of the Japan- ese advance has occurred on the The attack was called off after
The Chinese press gives promin-Tientsin-Pukow Railway, out- roughly 20 minutes.
It is believed that the total casual- ence to an interview with the Bri-side Tsangchow, where Japan- One Japanese shell struck a ma-ities were not more than 200. chine-gun post, killing two
and The only foreign property damag-tish manager of the Asiatic Petro-ese troops experienced their first wounding five.
ed was the sinking on the Hsiakuan leum Company, Mr. Munro Faure, real resistance for several days Casualties in Hoihow were few river front of the pontoon of the announcing the decision to main and suffered heavily in vain as- though several buildings were dam-British and International Export tain the Company's office in Nan-saults. aged-Our Own Correspondent.
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CONSUL-GENERAL AND ITALIAN AIRMEN REPORT
The Italian Consul General, “who is daily accustomed to lies of all kind against Italy and the officials. of the Fascist Government, spread in the Far East by some Press Agency, warn the Chinese Public in Hong Kong to accept with all suspicion the fantastic news pu- blished regarding "Two Italian pi- lots took part in the recent air raid in Canton' pending the official de- nial which always follows the news of that kind.”
MANY THOUSANDS KILLED IN CANTON
(Continued from Fage 1)
ly one bomb fell about 300 yards from the railway station this morning.
two
At the time, there were queues stretching 100 yards down the road outside the ticket offices, composed of huge crowds anxious. to evacuate and avoid the fate of their friends and relatives."
Similar scenes were being enact- ed at the steamship wharves. Reuter.
ACTION BY POWERS TO STOP RAIDS?
(Continued from Page 1). Labour opinion is voiced by the "Daily Herald," which refers to the attacks on Nanking and Canton as acts of savagery and barbarism.
The newspaper adds that unless. the nations band together in self- defence through the League, the fate of Nanking now may be the fate of their own capitals to *morrow.-Renter.
The surrounding district has been severely flooded by heavy rains and it is believed that the second line of the Chinese de-. fence at Tsangchów is waiting for action up to its waist in water-Our Own Correspondent. Tientsin, 2.45 pm, To- day.
Further attacks in at- tempts to penetrate the Chinese lines at Paotingfu have broken down.. The troops taking part in the on- slaughts are seeing their first fighting. They are troops which passed through, * Tientsin a week ago.-Our
Own Correspondent.
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A fierce battle raged between the Chinese troops and the Japanese forces when the two armies clashed a few miles from Taiyuanfu early this morning.
A hand-to-hand battle raged for over an hour after which their lines remained unchanged.
The Chinese have now made contact with the main troops of the newly created 8th Route Army
Hundreds of dead were left lying on the battle-feld by both sides Our Own Correspondent.
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