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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1937
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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
HEROIC STAND BY
CANTON
TROOPS
Delay Japanese Advance For Nearly Four Hours
PREVENT DEVELOPMENT
OF CIRCLING PLAN
CHINESE NOW STAND BRITISH POST
GROUND ON THE SOOCHOW CREEK
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)
IMPERILLED A SECOND TIME
SHANGHAI, TO-DAY POST Q IN THE BRITISH
ROYAL ULSTERS
FLES
Shanghai, 1.30 p.m., To-day. DEFENCE SECTOR, WHERE, Withdrawing in perfect order and with a mini-RFN. MCGOWAN OF THE mum of losses, the retreat being covered by splen-WAS FATALLY INJURED ON didly handled rearguard actions, Chinese troops in SUNDAY, WAS SHOWERED the Shanghai zone are now preparing to make a stand along the Soochow Creek.
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·HAN FU CHU TROOPS ON MOVE
Tsianfu, To-day.
Acting under orders of Gener- al Han Fu-chu, the Shantung 74th, 81st, 29th and part of the 35th Divisions crossed the Yellow River this morning, and are ad- Fancing north Our Own Cor respondent.
WITH SPLINTERS WHEN Shanghai Hangchow Railway, and TWO BOMBS FROM A JAPANraked with machine-gun fire on ESE PLANE TELL INSIDE Chinese troops moving south on
WESTERN DEFENCE foot
AWAY FROM
THE POST on the British outposts near Jess- field Park earlier on this morning.
Troops are pouring up as reinforcements from THE Nantao, all the bridges across the Creek are being SECTOR, ABOUT 100 YARDS It was the same plane which fired destroyed and the existence of prepared lines on THIS MORNING. the south of the creek, indicates the strategic na- ture of the move, which became practically inevit- the British troops. able upon the fall of Tazang.
One of the most magnificent efforts of the bat- tle was the delaying action fought by two Canton-
There were no casualties among
The order to fire at the plane from Post Q this morning was given by Lt. B. J. FitzGerald Don-
The Japanese plane then engaged in bombing coaches standing on the lea-Reuter
ese divisions this morning outside Tazang. Violent Cricket Bats That Give Confidence ly attacked at 5.30 a.m., at the same time as the Jap- anese Chapei drive was initiated, these troops held their ground for four hours, inflicting severe losses on the Japanese infantry, the meanwhile ensuring the safe withdrawal of the Kiangwan and Chapei troops without disaster.
AWE-INSPIRING CHAPEL BLAZE
Shanghai, To-day.
The worst fire in the Far East since Tokyo burned after the his toric earthquake in 1923, is now raging in Chapei.
The whole northern sky is black with dense clouds of smoke, after the Chinese troops, as they with drew from their positions, method- ically blew up mines and se: fire to buildings covering whole square miles of territory.
When the news came through that the withdrawal had been safely accomplished, the Canton- ese troops themselves withdrew in accordance with orders and are now rejoining the main body retiring on the Soochow Creek.
The four-hour delay at Tazang upset all the Japanese military cal- culations, and the work of the Cantonese troops is highly praised by foreign obser ers. There is now no prospect of the Japanese causing a debacle.
Splendid defence was also mark- ed in the Kiangwan sector, where the rearguard, covering the re- treat, prevented Japanese occupa- tion of the village until 9.30 am.
NORTH STATION BATTLE The mass of Japanese troops Thousands, appalled but fascin- ated, are watching the spectacle thrown into Chapel launched their from windows and roofs in the attack at 5.30 am but it was got foreign areas.
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