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AUSTRALIA'S CHIFICENT
BUTTER
WHOLE SHANGHAI FRONT AFLAME
Japanese Launch Attacks On All Sectors
CHINESE HOLD LINES IN DESPERATE FIGHTING
SUNK BOMBER WAS HIT NEAR
CANTON
Shanghai, I p.m. To-day-
It is disclosed by the Japanese
naval authorities here that the giant
Japanese bomber which cashed in
the sea near Amoy with four wound
those which took part in the air
COMBINED AIR AND
LAND ATTACK
Shanghai, To-day.
PRINCE FUSHIMI IN SERIOUS CONDITION
Shanghai, 1.25 pm To-day Prince Fushimi, who wounded when a Chinese from Pooting, burst
a Japanese destro
The Japanese launched attacks on all sectors in the Whangpen, is reported
of the Shanghai front this morning.
While artillery blazed, sending shell after shell into the Chinese lines, bombers loosed their destructive cargoes.
ed airmen on board, was among The immediate vicinity of North Station raid on the Canton-Hankow Rail-ceived the most attention, and several shells are
ported to have found their mark.
machine was hit several times shrapnel from Chinese anti-air-
craft guns, one shell bursting very close and wounding four of the six
men on board.
The other airmen endeavoured to fly the damaged bomber to Formosa, her base, but she crashed at three o'clock in the afternoon into the sea.
to be in a serious
Fition.
He has been treated aboard a
hospital ship in the river and two
pieces of shrapnel removed. It is reported, however, that some time elapsed between the wounding and
was
re-the time adequate treatment re-available, and he is suffering from
Chinese anti-aircraft guns, which gave their first display yesterday, again went into action this morning but no success has been reported hither-
Reuter.
to
SEVERE FIGHTING
Shanghai, 1.40 p.m. To-day. Severe fighting is taking place
The crew, picked up by the s.s. Soochow, were yesterday mornall along the Shanghai front from
áre reported to have been unusually severe. Our Own Correspondent.
severe shock and loss of blood
A blood transfusion is likely to
be carried out.
It is also learned that several
casualtiesTM occurred aboard the Idzumo this morning when the decks of the flagship were swept by machine gun fire-Our Own Cor respondent.
ing transferred to a Japanese war-Lotien to Chapel, with the heaviest Cricket Bats That Give Confidence ship and the wounded men put into weight of the Japanese - offensive the ship's hospital The condition launched against the North Station of one of them is reported to be sector. serious-Our Own Correspondent.
SOVIET AMBASSADOR'S MYSTERY TRIP
The station premises in the last 24 hours has been reduced to a shambles by concentrated artillery fire and aerial bombing, but the Chinese lines remain intact and the Japanese have lost heavily in 2 series of infantry assanits.
All along the line, the Japanese” forces have encountered Chinese re- sistance in overwhelming strength; Shanghai, 125 pm. To-day, more than ten additional divisions
the
have
The departure for Moscow by divisions are concentrated in
having been placed in reserve. Seven aeroplane of M. Bogomolaff, the Soviet Ambassador, has arousedangwan sector, where Japanese considerable speculation as to
attempts to break through the import of the trip.
been easily repulsed. It is rumoured strongly in Chin- Similar reports of stubborn fight- ese circles that M. Bogomoloff caring and unchanged lines are com- ries important contracts for the ling in from the Lotien-Linhang sec- supply of Soviet arms and ammuni-
tor Japanese losses in this area the Nanking Government |
a large delivery of aero-1
ying other highly mair experience to return to China
go wil to join the
response
teriak as
Nanking shortly.
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