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No. 29,715
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER
1937
Price: 10 Cts
INSIST ON
Daisy
Brand
AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
JAPANESE POSITION ALMOST UNTENABLE
Grim Battle On Soochow Creek Continuing
MAINTAINING
FOOTHOLD
MATTER OE PRESTIGE
SMALL AREA UNDER LARGE-SCALE CONCENTRATED JAPANESE
SHELLFIRE
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)
Shanghai, 1.55 p.m., To-day.
WITHDRAWAL?
Peiping, 2.40 pm, To-day.
that Japanese Admission
Peping-Hankow
be conveyed
TWELVE HOURS AT 163.68 M.P.H.
Bonneville Salt Flats, To-day.
Captain - George Eyston, the British racing motorist, yesterday broke the twelve-hour speed re- cord at an average speed of 163.68 miles an hour...
Capt. Byston recently broke SEE Malcolm Campbell's world speed record, but his mark was not re cognised as he only carried out one run owing to clutch trouble
Reuter
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with
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2 large part a the
to Ningtzekwan and a withdrawal as a precautionary meas
A British military observer, in an appreciation of the present situation along the Soochow Creek, where the Japanese are engaged in a desperate struggle to maintain their foothold on the south ed more than bank, suggests that but for reasons of prestige, the last forty-eight Japanese would have withdrawn before now. ment from military headquarters north-west.
announcing that their troops are The position, from the viewpoint of military balding a position to the north of forces on the Peiping Hankow line safety, is all but untenable, as the Japanese forces Shanteh are confined within a comparatively small area, The statement says that the At the same time, the Japanese upon which the Chinese artillery fire is heavily con-operations down the line have state that Central Government been temporarily suspended, troops who occupied Shunteh, the centrated.
pending the outcome of the cam- 47th and 81st divisions, appeared, Shansi, which is pro according to aerial observation, to Japanese attempts to erect pontoon bridges to pain enable the employment of mechanised forces have ceeding favourably, the fall of be retiring from Shunted south- inknown Our been defeated by machine-gun fire which has taken Taiyuan being expected before wards, for a heavy toll of sapper units, while work accomplish- ed during the night was destroyed by shellfire early this morning.
Reinforcements to the number of more than 10,000 men arrived from Japan this morning, and were immediately conveyed from Hongkew to- wards the battle fronts.
Another desperate attempt is of the French Concession in the now in progress to increase the war
zone, was
hold obtained on the south bank, ground during theed to the
but as far as can be judged, the Own Correspondent.
Chinese forces are holding the
initiative, attacking fiercely at all
exposed points while maintaining a
night. Our
TWELFTH
steady artillery and machine gun WEEK OF WAR
fire into the sector. The Japanese communique issued at noon to-day, in a brief reference to the fighting along the Soochow Creek, says that the Chinese are "putting up very stiff resistance.”“”
Meanwhile, the guns in Poo- tang are persistently shelling the Yangtsepoo district.
JAPANESE UNIVERSITY BURNED DOWN
forme
nese
the borders
Shanghai, To-day
The twelfth week of the Shang-
bai war is closing to-day with the Japanese still trying to strengthen their foothold on the south side of Soochow Creek for a drive design ed to clear the Chinese troops from the borders of the Settlement.
Main point of the Japanese land-
on Page 17
the end of this week"
Own. Correspondent
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