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BUTTER
SZECHUEN
ROAD FIGHTING
Thomas Hanbury School Ground Strewn With Slain
SCOPE OF GREAT BATTLE TYPHOON
GRADUALLY EXTENDING EXPECTED AT
CHINESE MORALE REMAINS HIGH
Shangai, 2 p.m. To-day.
MANCHURIA UNREST RUMOURS
ABOUT 8P.M.
GALE WIND LIKELY
MUCH EARLIER
Peiping, To-day. The typhoon is expect-
North Szechuen Road in the vicinity of Haskell! Road was the scene of violent fighting this morn- ing when Japanese marines were ordered to take the Shanghai Printing Press, from which Chinese
It is reliably reported that Gened to strike the coast in troops have been inflicting serious casualties re-eral Honjo, who will be remember close proximity to Hong cently.
As a result of hand to hand fighting which raged for several hours, the Thomas Hanbury School grounds were covered with bodies of Chin ese and Japanese slain.
ed for activities in Manchuria
during the 1932 hostilities, arrived Kong at about eight at Hsinking yesterday afternoon o'clock this evening. "Emperor of Manchukuo.
Winds of gale force
and consulted with Pu Yi, the
It is understood that the visit is are, however, expected connected with the rumours of to be experienced in the unrest in the Manchukuoan Army, Colony within two or
There is also fierce fighting in the region of the plus suspicion of Soviet military. Commercial Press.
of
activity along the borders which three hours, that is has been reported to the War round about 5 p.m. The situation on the Lotien-Liuhang line re-office
This afternoon, the position General Honjo is planning to the typhoon was approximately 100 mains somewhat obscure, but it is evident that the Chinese withdrawal is not of any great extent and make a flying tour of the border miles E.SE. of the Colony. It was defences. Our Own Correspon- then making for the. Colony. Its that the general line of the Chinese defence re
(Continued on Page 24). mains unbroken.
The Japanese claimed this morning the capture of Liuchowhang and stated that they were on the outskirts of Tashang. This menace to the flanks of the troops in the Kiangwan sector has led to an extension of the scope of the engagement, which is now raging all along the line from Lotien to Kiangwan.
A foreign correspondent, return- Their big guns firing from Kiating ing from a tour behind the Chinese and Kwangfu are raining shells on lines, states that the morale of the the Japanese positions at a remark- Chinese forces is extremely high able speed and it is interesting to note that they have been employing a scouting plane to spot for them. "The correspondent says that from Kiating hundreds of tons of shells were poured into the Japanese lines in the space of an hour or two.
ADMIRAL AND COAST BLOCKADE
Shanghai, 1:30 p.m. To-day. Vice Admiral Hasegawa, com- mander of the Japanese Third Fleet, stated to-day that it is the intention of the Japanese Navy to destroy all forts and armed vessels that may interfere with the Japan
blockade of the China coast
Our Own Cotzékponde
KIANGWAN POSITION
The positions at Kiangwan remain much the same, though the Chinese front line appears to be nearly two miles in advance of the point to which they were driven a fortnight ago.
Severe fighting is going on in this sector-Our Own Correspon- Ident
dent.
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