SOVIET
MASS PROTEST RESOLUTIONS
Shanghai, To-day.
THE CHINA MAIL SEPTEMBER 27. 1937.
SHELLING SHAKES PARK HOTEL
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landed here and an immense strug gle will probably start in days...
JAPANESE CASUALTIES
JAPANESE TAKE
INITIATIVE ®
Park Hotel Shaken By Shelling
Shanghai, To-day Although the sky was overcast
The Moscow correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph states that mass resolutions "indignantly condemning the inhuman killing of peaceful Japanese announcements of losses defenceless "Chinese by the Japan-sustained in the Shanghai fighting ese Imperialists" were submitted, tolare considered by foreign observers all the chief Moscow factories over to be much under-stated. They the Japanese took the initiative the week-end.
have suffered particularly heavily early this morning, subjecti
Chapei and Kiangwan village very severe bombardment from land, sea and air-
The Soviet press, says the corres-lin the last few days. pondent, has been instructed to The villages of Chingchiawan and avoid anything the Japanese might Linhang have both been taken and twist into "Bolshevik intervention in re-taken, and are now in Chinese. Chinese affairs," and therefore re-hands. ports these resolutions only in short A virtual blood-bath has taken paragraphs on the back page, with place in this area, many of out headlines.
casualties having been suffered vicious hand-to-hand fighting.
For the same reason, the Soviet press has not commented editorial- ly on Japanese activities since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese conflict-Reuter.
THIRTEEN PLANES IN RAID
Canton. 11.30 a.m. To-day. Reuter's correspondent found the whole of the Wongsha Sta- tion area ringed. by tin-hatted soldiers with fixed bayonets, who were refusing everyone admis- sion.
Meanwhile Chinese ambulance workers are active and a number of stretchers were seen going into the Station.
It is impossible at present to obtain casualty figures owing to the intense confusion in the station. The building itself seems not badly damaged from the outside, and it is believed the bombs landed on houses in the near vicinity.
It now eventuates that 'some thirteen Japanese planes parti- cipated in the raid, most of them going up
the Canton- Hankow Railway, presumably for the purpose
of bombing
various points outside Canton and completely tying up trafic. -Reuter.
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MECHANISED UNITS
Although the Japanese brought fifteen armoured cars, the Chinese forced the mechanised
up
units to retreat to their initial positions.
Explosions of bombs and shells were audible all over Shanghai and, according to residents, shook to its foundations the 22-storey Park Hotel opposite the Race Course in the International Settlement.
According to a Chinese spokes- man, however, no military objec- tive was hit, though many houses were set on fire.
He added that the Japanese troops are preparing a drive from the Civic Centre at Kiangwan.
A Japanese spokesman claimed At the same time the Japanese that the tracks at four stations launched another large-scale offen along the recently opened Hang- sive south-east of Lotien, and chow-Nanchang Railway were des- column 1,000 strong managed to troyed by Japanese aircraft, also cross a creak in the face of heavy that aerodromes outside Hangchow *fire.
and Ningpo were bombed. Reuter
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Chinese reinforcements arrived,
however, and the enemy were driven back, losing terribly as they were thrown back across the creek-
DEFENCE TRIUMPH
The pontoon bridge by which they had crossed the creek earlier, was destroyed by Chinese artillery fre, and few of the Japanese escaped as they endeavoured to swim back to ¡safety.
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FIERCE FIGHTING NEAR LOTIEN
Shanghai, To-day. -The Japanese this morning launched a severe attack north-west of the Lotien-Liuhang sector, and claim to have met with some early
success.
A spokesman stated that three Other Japanese attacks on Kiang-Japanese regiments are attempting Ito surround the Chinese troops at wan have been repulsed with heavy
Liukahang, near Lotien. losses to the Japanese.
Fierce fighting is proceeding- Our Own Correspondent.
Shanghai, To-day. Japanese bankers in Shanghai
Some quarters in Shanghai con- sider that the present action is a triumph for the Chinese military engineers, who have constructed elaborate defence systems which conferred last night and decided to have withstood every test, including re-open current account departments that of bombardment from heavy-of. all banks as from to-day calibre guns.-Trans-Ocean.
Own Correspondent.
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Can To-day A lumber yard near the Wongsha Station was hit by bombs is now blazing furi-
ously.
Other bombs dropped on Honam from four Japanese planes, who altogether dropped fifteen bombs Not much dam- age was done, most of the mis-
siles falli fields Our Own Corres
Canton, To-day. Semi-official sources state that
80 were killed and wounded in this morning's air raid.
A number of spent machine- gun bullets have been picked up on Shameen Beuter.
As distinct from the war in the 2nd Battahons of the Tank Corps to
ight tanks pull up on the road
Jan'd
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commercial business is a most important fac- tor. During the world war the battle of the Marne was won only by the speed used in transporting troops in every kind of motor ve- hicle obtainable which checked the advancing army and saved the city of Paris. In every office time can be saved by using a super-speed. and easy-writing ROYAL type-
rriter
N. Z. Workers And Japan
Dunedin (New Zealand),
To-day.
Waterside workers have resolved to load no more scrap iron for ship- ment to Japan, an official stated.
The men show no sympathy for the bombing of defenceless women and children in China, he stated, and only with difficulty, were they persuaded to had the Melbourne Maru to-day.
place in England recently in which the 1st and tanks were in action on Salisbury Plain. Photo shows
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