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JAPANESE TROOPSHIP AGROUND IN ESTUARY.
Badly Needed Reinforcements Aboard Stranded Ship.
WOOSUNG BATTLE
OBSTACLE.
WITHERING FIRE STOPS CREEK CROSSING.
LONDON WOMAN HIT BY SHRAPNEL.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).
THE WOOSUNG BATTLE is still raging. The Japanese forces have made no progress since yesterday morning, though the Chinese .positions have been constantly attacked both from land and sea.
The Chinese appear to have left only a few men in the actual forts, the bulk of the Fourth Regiment of the 19th Army having been concentrated along the natural defence line presented by the Woosung Creek. The Japanese were, this afternoon, still on the south side, every effort to cross having been frustrated by withering, fire, from the Chinese machine-guns.
A London woman, wife of a police inspector, was wounded this morning by splinters from one of many shells which landed in the Settlement and French Con- cession from Chinese anti-aircraft guns.
SHELLBURST AT MISSION
Shanghai, Fol. 9, 11.25 a..
BUILDING.
TOW Un-
ODE
LITE
Swarms of refugees passing out of the Hengkew District into the International Settlement. Picture was taken a ʼn Broadway.
Greater Shanghai against Japan-
we aggression. Benchu,
Refugee Crisis.
Shanghai, Feb. 9. 234 p.m. The inflas of destitute refuger s into the international Settlement from native areas baa erestert a very serious problem for the authorities.
The latest official extimates pes veal the fact that there are at last two hundred thousand unem- ployed in the Settlement--Renter} (Our Own Correspondent).
Guns Heard in Shanghai, –
Shanghai, Feb. 9, 11 a.m.
The roar of the battle round Vooung Parts can be heard dis tinctly in the centre of Shanghai this morning.
The Chinese forens appear fa be strongly entrenched ainut the: Forts and last night were await- fug an assault by massed troops. The Chinese rushed. reinfover- ments to the aren late yesterday!
afternoon.
Noval Meu Taken Out,
The Japanese naval force which
the Woosang area, storming the outer defences and carrying the heen first he of trenches, his taken ont of the battle and turned to Shanghai.
rc-
tions at Wousung, and are stil An exciting war gan was wit-1 held up on the south side of the earried out the initial attacks on nesged from the Settlement this creek, where they are morning, at 10,30 ans, when a trenched.
Structures on the foresthare of Japanese bombing machine flow:
with orders to the creek has been destroyed by over, evidently
to facilitate opera- torair and bomb the Chinese artil- the Japanese
which have been causing the tions.
This morning, Japanese men si Jamnese considerable annoyance,
flew over the Markham Road war heavily shelled the forts and whers several of these guns are the village, but neither were nei placed and over the gun emplace-cupied, the defenders having twen ments at the North Station, all drawn out to meet the land attack. the while being followed by anti- aircraft guns, shrapnel bursting
Jery
all round it without doing damage.
Guns Boom On.
Inspector's Wife Injured.
It is believed that they suffered; extremely heavy casunities,
Machine-Guns Do Deadly Work.
After capturing the first line of trenches, they attempted to take the second line and were brought Shanghai, Feb. 9. 2.34 pm. to a complete halt by a torious machine- When the Chinese anti-cadreraft ruin of lead from the The machine also failed in its fired on the plane which was gun on the apasite side of the
the Creek. flying over the Settlement mission, the plot dropping tombs majority of them being "duds." but failing to silence the hoom of landed in the Settlement and the the Chinese gons.
French Concession. Shrapnel from Chinese shells The wife of Inspector 1. 9. hit 18e London Missionary Robertson, { th Settlement Society's retider ups in Chanutopny Palive, who is a Lonion woman, Road ni elela wclock last night, was worded slidly in the check penetrating part of the interior and temple by splinters from one
of the shells which exploded.
of the building.
It was des ided to move the wo men and children to a place of safety Immediately. No-one was injured.
Wonsung Still Balls Out.
Shanghai, Feb. 9, 2,36 p,mn. The Japanese forces have been unable to carry the Chinese posi- {
General: „Tank Tingskaf, the yortkľul cómmander Df the Ninaz teanth Raille Army, which has ...surprised the world by its spirit In resisting the Japanese faross,
Several shells landed train the Public, School for Girls the largest girls school in the Far East, which is situate: out-1 side the Settlement but on municipal road.---Reuter, ̧
+
Troopship Agrounul. Shanghai. Feb. 5, 2.34 p.m. I la reliably reported that be- tween six and seven hundred Japanese troops have arrived in the Shanghai area and are now
In the Battle participating. Chapel
Less than twenty miles away, four hundred Japanese marines
or
They have been replaced in the Woosing balle area by troops of the regular army.
German Assistance Rumours.
From the top of the Cathay Hotel, huge clouds of smoke can he observed from the direction of Woosung. B is thought to be which is reported to be going up issuing from Wonsung Village.
in Dames.
Picture typical of the lighting in Chapsi. The Japanese troope are subjected to hire from snipers from right and left. On left of photo, two steel-helmeted marines are seen trying to allence one of these plain-clothes' gunmen.
ANOTHER AIR BATTLE.
FIVE MACHINES INVOLVED.
THOUSANDS OF FEET UP.
(Our Own Correspondent).
ADMIRAL KELLY'S
FAILURE.
JAPANESE REFUSE PEACE PROPOSALS.
DEMAND WITHDRAWAL OF CHINESE.
SHANGHAI HAS PRACTICALLY abandoned hope of a termination of hostilities through the good offices of Admiral Sir Howard Kelly.
The Japasese Minister, Mr. Shigemitsu, accord- ing to reports from two reliable sources, has rejected the British Admiral's proposals and it is assumed that the serious setbacks suffered by the Japanese have created a position which renders it imperative, in the Japanese mind, that the issue be pressed to a successful conclusion by weight of troops.
Prestige, known in the Far East as "face," prevents a peaceful solution.
CHINESE WILLINGNESS.
(Special to “Telegraph.")
Shanghai, Feb. 9, 8.84 n.. Admiral Sir Howard Kelly's efforts to improve the situation in Shanghai appear to have failed.
for an
Įyesterday, regarding possible means of peacefully adjusting ro- lations between the Chinese and Japanese forces.
Admiral Sir Howard Kelly and
It is reported that his proposal!Mr..J. F. Brenan, the British
of Consul-General, had a long con... Immediate resantion hostilities was accepted in prin-versation with Mr. Shigemitsu on ciple by the Chinese but rejected the basis of certain proposals by Mr. Shigemitsu, the Japanese which had been put forward and tentatively accepted by tho Minister to China.
Chinese.
Mr. Shigemituu is alleged to have said that Japan could not
No Reconciliation. agree to the proposals until the Chinese forces had withdrawn, ori It is understood that no re: MR. YEN DEMANDS had been driven back. to aconcillatory view was achieved as
distance of 15 to 20 miles from a result. the LEAGUE ACTION.
Intednationi Settlement.
CONSULAR REPORT ON
SHANGHAI.
Reuter.
London Unuware,
London, Feb. 8.
It is gathered that the Japanese Minister made certain counter- proposals, providing, among other things for the withdrawal of the In the House of Commone to-Chinese troops from, the neigh- day, Mr. Baldwin announced that bourhood of the Settlement. The negotiations regarding the pos- Japanese proposals were not, how- |sibility of establishing a cessation | evor, in accord with the conditions
"BITTER ENMITY." [of hostilities at Shanghat were contemplated by the Chinese pu.
Shanghai, Feb. 9, 11 n.m. Shanghai this morning witness od what appeared to be an another aeroplane battle over Chapei.
Five machines were involved in the duel, which occurred round flaming Japanese opinion and about nine o'clock, attention being leading to a spirit of bilter zmily, attracted by the rattle of machine-
an are from the air,
Geneva, Fub. 8. The first Report of the Con- sular Commission Investigating thei Shanghai fighting has been sub-) mitted to the League Secretariat.
It ascribes the origin of the trouble to the Japanese military activities in Manchuria, resulting in a boycott of Japanese goods in Shanghai and other parts of
the boycolt, in turn, China,
Events Leading To Fighting.
Int present in progress and for thorities.
the moment he would prefer to
nothing say
further-British wireless.
JAPANESE PRESTIGE.
(Our Own Correspondent). Shanghal, Feb. 9, 10.06 a.m. Fürther discussions look place
"IF THERE IS ANY
SHANGHAI LEFT."
Setbacks Rouse Feeling.
It is considered unlikely that the situation will develop in fa- vour of an Immediately peaceful solution. The Japanese do not like the setbacks they have suffer- ed and feel impelled to force a decision.
IRISH ELECTION FEVER.
Ght took place, it was impossible events leading to the hostilities,
Due to the height at which thei The Report recapitulates the DEAN OF CANTERBURY, NOMINATIONS TO BE
to ascertain the number of Chi: including the Japanese Admiral's
the
H
BOUND EAST. It is rumoured that the Chinese nese machines concerned, andlemands, and the Chinese refusal are employing Germans among they gradually disappeared from to comply with the terms regard-
London, Feb. 8. their defenders at Woosung Ports, sight, leaving witnesses in
ing the withdrawal of troops) "I am hoping to land.at Shang- and that Germans are also operat- dark as to the result of the
en-because it was impossible to with-hai-if there is any Shanghai left Fing the anti-aircraft guna.
draw in the short time available, when I arrive," declared the Rev. The concluding part of the Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canter Report gives detailed descrip- bury, discussing with Reuter his the flooded aren of tion of the landing of the Japanese] mission in marines and of the subsequent China. fighting.
Chapei Quiet To-day.
On the Chupel front, where ferce fighting developed yesterday afternoon and last night, a heavy bombardment proceeding, it is coniparatively quiet this morning. Only machine-gun fire is now be over two thousand Japanese ing heard and that only intermit regular soldiers are still attacking tently. It is assumed that no at- Wouxung Forts, over which the tacks are being made and that the guns open fire only when a move- Chinese ing continues to fly.
And
A Japanese troopship which was ment among the combatant forces carrying reinforcements has gone is detected, or thought to be de- aground in the Yangtze Estuary.tected,
Reuter.
Kagement.
ť
JAPAN'S SCHEME FOR CHINA.
SPEEDY REJECTION BY AMERICA.
Washington, Feb. 6. The feelers put out by the Tokyu Foreign Office regarding scheme for demilitarisation of the Form the Cathay Hotel, thero Chinese coast appears at present to be three big" solution
and Ares proceeding in Chapel, the
Council Meeting Requested. On publication of this Report, Mr. W. W. Yon has requested an immediate meeting of the League Council to discuss it "In view of In the very terrible happenings Shanghai in the past ten days."
"Japanese bombing and gunfire wounded thou-
river ports, na have killed and
Shanghai i ønnds of innocent men, women and]
Imost soriaus being in the vicinitemporally" have China problem children. ·
of the Odeon Theatre.
Chinese Warning.
Shanghal, Feb. 9, Mr. Wu Tlch-chen, the Mayor of Greater Shanghai, linn lodged a
Liubo Battle. further protest with the Municipal Council regarding the use of Hong- The battle at Liuho Is believed kow as a base for the Japanese to be still proceeding. An eye military operations,
witness of the engagement arrived The Mayor says that the Chinese in Shanghai this morning and he authorities cannot hold themselves atates that the Chinese have threa responsible for any damage done Ups of trenches, none of which to foreign property in Hongkow as have boon taken in spite of fierce a result of the Chinese defence of Japanese attacks.
(Continued on Page it.)
All Horrors of War.
not mot with a "Japanese Incendiariam has favourable reception hora.
destroyed thousand of houses. It is, indeed, understood that the United States Government havo indicated that they will un- hesitatingly reject any plan for the demilitarisation, of the princip al ports of China;!"
Tho Japanose scheme would have prohibited the presence of Chinese troops within twenty or thirty miles of any treaty port Router.
MADE TO-DAY.
(Reuter's Special Service).
London, Feb. B.
The election fever which is now swcoping the Irish Free State is unprecedented since the signing of the Treaty.
Dean Johnson sails for the For The nomination of candidates Eust to-day and he stated that if it which takes place to-morrow were is Impossible for him to proceed handed In to-day throughout via Shanghai, he will disembark twenty-six counties, at Hongkong-Router.
THE "FREE PORTS" OF BRITAIN.
RE-EXPORT TRADE PROPOSAL,
London, Fab. 9.
.
In order to save the British re- "The Japanese army and navy export trade, which amount to
At the last election, five years ago there were 264 candidates for 153 seats. To-day it is expected
that there will be 270 candidates.
The Government Party at the.. Dissolution numbered sixty-five and De Valera's Republican Party 60.
It is expected that there will be only one woman candidate, Mrs. O'Driscoll, who is a slater of the lato Mr. Michael Collins, A
are enacting, all the horrors and about £64,000,000 per annum aud Last work, the Shanghat Municipal cruelties of war and every minute which Je jeopardised by the new Council medo an appeal for 200, more Introduced, young Britons and Americans, to join of delay and Inaction. by the tariff system to be Loague means an increased loss the Government has decided, the Volunteer Corpe, owing to be
lity is to declare, all big British Forts, da
cording to this morning's papers, strain, placed withe men Trendy
duty, the stringin of the Corps on of life and property.
The League's responsibility very great-Raptors N