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三拜禮 號五十月八英港香 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
25, 1937. 日十二月七
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THE WORLDS MASTER
FOREIGNERS READY TO FIGHT
Grave Concern Felt For International Settlement's Safety
ALL AMERICANS WARNED
FOR
ACTIVE SERVICE; BRITISH ORDER GUNS FROM H.K.
May Have To Face Desperate
Chinese Army In Retreat a
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Shanghai, Aug, 25.
Continuing grave concern for the fate of the International Settlement in the event that withdrawing forces try to rush the barricades and attempt to force an entrance, is causing the foreign
WHEN BOMBS FELI IN SETTLEMENT MERCILESS
菌
Here is a graphic picture from Shanghat showing the scene after recent cxplosions from bombs which fell in the Settlement. Stretcher cases are seen being handled on the Bund near the Public Gardens.
COSTLY ADVANCE
authorities, quietly and effectively, without "getting the wind up,"TOWARD NANKOW
generally to take all precautions.
At the suggestion of the U.S. Marines' commanding officer all able-bodied Americans not at present performing emergency police or military duty have been approached regarding their willingness to shoulder arms and take their places in the American defence sector, which is 7,000 zig-zagging yards long. It would be most difficult to hold against a desperate rush of troops facing annihilation on all sides, unless every available effective stands firm behind the sandbags and barbed wire.
The British authorities are also gravely concerned for the Settlement in the event of the Japanese "big push" confronting the concessions with the necessity of repulsing retreating Chinese. Brigadier A. P. D. Telfer-Smollett, commandant of the British forces, the strongest in Shanghai, after a conference with other foreign commanders, has ordered artillery from Hongkong. The number of batteries and the size of guns sought is being kept a closely guarded secret.
GREAT JAPANESE OFFENSIVE
OPENS
PLANS FOR GENERAL, bardment. Aerial bombs had set
EVACUATION
for
the picturesque village of Lotten in domes.
Pans for n general American
As the Japanese advance they are evacuation If the event proves neces-methodically mopping up throughout sary are now completed. All
dls- the areas occupied. trict captains are responsible rounding up the nationals of their The villages of Tazang and Chenju areas and reporting to the Amerlennare the Immediate Japanese ob- Emergency Committee. Mr. It. T.jectives, us they were in the latter McDonnell, former U.S. Army officer phase of the 1032 fighting. Another and head of a lending engineering column is attempting to advance up Arm, is chairman of this Committee the Shanghal-Woosung highway. and is working day and night.
China Ready To Withdraw From S'hai
But Only If Japan
Does Likewise
Onus Of Refusal
Rests On Tokyo
London, Aug. 24.
HEAVY CASUALTIES
Five
divisions of Central
AS
STOP PRESS
MAN THEY COULDN'T HANG
Shanghal, Aug. 25. Атолу the thousand refugees leaving by the Empress of Canada for Hongkong there are eight foreign prisoners, including Alma Singh, the Indian who was sentenced to death for murder, but whose sentence was the attempt to hang him was unsue- commuted to fe Imprisonment after
JAPANESE ATTACK MOUNTAIN POSTS
Peiping, Aug. 25.
Government troops defending the Nankow-Huailai area are now in a. pre-cessful-Reuter. carious position following the capture of Kalgan on August 22 by a fast column of the Kwantung Army from Dolonor. This column is now reported to be pushing rapidly towards Hsuanhua in order to attack the Central Government troops from the rear.
A Japanese spokesman claims that the Japanese have won successes in the Nankow Pass area, where the main offensive has allegedly reached the Great Wall through the hills west of and parallel to the pass. The advance was only accomplished after very heavy hand-to-hand fighting, in driving rain, up and down the mountain-sides.
Casualties are believed to have been very high, owing to the continued arrival of Japanese wounded at Peiping,
The Japanese claim to be driving |
the Chinese from the Great Wall into the Bualla Ploin. However, a United Press correspondent on Mon- day observed heavy fighting within five miles west and cast of Nankow Puss itself, along the foothills, in- dicating the Japanese announcement of successes is possibly premature,
Prison Delivery Meanwhile,
at Peiping
itself
ISLANDERS REVOLT
White Men Flee From Inagua
London, Aug. 24.
refugees from the island of Inngun, Fourteen Brilish onl American in the Bahamas, have arrived Cuba in a motor-boat, almost naked, having used their clothes for salls when the motor broke down.
at
Chinese plainclothes men synchronis ed an attack on a large prison outside the Tchsheng Gate, North Pelping, with a revolt inside and succeeded in freeing a large number of convicts China has notified Great Bri- who have been armed from the tain of her willingness to accept fighting broke out over a large area
prison orsenal. Later,
sporadic Artillery, landed from transports,, in principle the British proposals north-west and north of Peiping. The Japanese Army is astride all is now lumbering into action and un- for the mutual withdrawal of Yenching University residents re- roads from Shanghal to Woosung,mbering for a barrage before the Lotion, Tatsang, and began a general infantry is ordered to charge the Chinese and Japanese troops, in-ported fighting in all directions all advance in brilliant sunshine, under Chinese lines. cloudless skles and rising tempera-
cluding Japanese warships, from night long. the immediate vicinity of the Foreign observera belleve the Japanese will soon dominate the Japanese air force is operating in been received, but the British along it, unless the Chinese scatter to As a prelude to the big battle, the Japan's final reply has not yet wiping out the Chinese detachments relays against the very strong Chinese serial combardment has been carried deeply disappointed at Tokyo's months duration. It is pointed out lines around Chenju. The neverest Government has up to now been the hills and adopt guerilla tactles of many necessitating a campaign out there, planes diving well under negative attitude. 1,000 feet before loosing their bombs
The troubles were learned of in n and using their machine-guns on the Heve that with the aid of the newly-summit of Nankow Puss they can vestigate matters on the receipt of that if the Chinese dynomite the wireless report from an official party Japanese circles in London be- main Chinglungchlao tunnel at the sent from Nassau to Inngua to in- frenches. The Chinese are answer landed reinforcements their troops in delay the use of the railway by the
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a wireless 809 from the island.- (Continued on Page 5.)
Reuter,
The fugitives, who are at present under the care of the Cuban au- thorities, carried arma for defence. They comprise the British High Com- missioner of Inagua, an
American named Erickson and twelve others.,
Residency, the wireless station who were forced to leave the islanet which the local Resident Was killed and
other buildings burned.
ture to-day. They admit the going is PRELUDE TO BATTLE French Concession of Shanghai. Peiping-Sulyuan_rallway to Kalgan, after troubles in
very hard, for the Chinese have con- contrated a great force in trenches flanking the highways.
STILL HOLDING
LINES
At 9.45 a.m. to-day the Chinese
were still holding their lines despite
an intensive Japanese naval böm¬
the
und
IDZUMO RETURNS
Shanghai, Aug. 25. returned to her old position
The Japanese flagship Idzumo huis in the
SHELLING OF S'HAI
Chinese Retake
Lotion In
Woosung Battle Shanghai, Aug: 25 (8.53 a.m.).
Shanghai passed a compara- tively quiet night. It broken only by the occasional boom of gunfire, but the usual aerial activity is expected this morning.
WAS
Japanese warships opened the day with the usual shelling of the Chinese positions in Poo- tung. This operation has now become a daily fore-runner to major land hostilities.
No Chinese activity is discernible at this early hour but ofter inst night's visitation from a solitary Chinese plane the Idzumo, the Japanese flagship, has again changed her position the Whangpoo, mov- ing
ittle down-river.
over-
The nuise of other planes head, presumed to be Chinese, was
heard by many residents during the night, but there was no bombing. It was one of the most peaceful nights since the outbreak of the fighting- Renter.
Lotien Retaken
Shanghal, Aug, 25. The Chinese military authorities announced this morning that the de- fending troops in the Woosung area had reoccupied Lotien following bitter clash.
I was Rated that 700 Japanese broke through the Chinese lines at this point earlier in the prolonged operations, piercing the trench sys- tem near Chucnshanchen and reach- ing Lotion by way of the Mulso Bridge.
The communique odds Lotion was lost as a result of weakness in the Chinese lines, from which troops had been sent to reinforce hard-pressed--- units in the Lion Forest. Later, the Chinese returned to Lotien in force
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The Superintendent of Malls informs us that letters and news- papers, but no parcels, are, to be forwarded to Shanghat by the 9.4. Shengking. The mall closes at 4.30 p.m. to-day.
und drove the Japanese as far Chuenshanchen.
14
United Press.
Very severe fighting continues.~~~
river.--Reuter.
SEEK TO KEEP PEACE
Tsingtao, Aug. 25. Four prominent Japanese bave up- prouched the Chinese authorities here to put to an end disturbing, false runours and the Chinese have ap-
Few Troops Landed pointed officials to exchange views It is authoritatively stated with the Japanese with this end in that word has come from Shanghai view. The rice and flour supply is that the troops lunded up to yester- sufficient for six months, it is dis-day by the Japanese around Woosung closed-Renter.
did not total inore than 6,000.
ITALIAN TROOPS COMING
London, Aug. 25. The Daily Telegraph correspondent in Rome states that the 1st Battalion of the Royal Grenadiers of Savoy have left Addis Ababa for Mussawa to embark for Shanghai to reinforce the Italian contingents
there. extent of the loss of life and property in Shanghat is
Tive
The
here
Moreover, it is stated on the best authority that In spite of denials, a Japanese gunboat was sunk in yes- terday's operations off Woosung and
destroyer badly damaged. Concentrating On Woosung
Shanghal, Aug. 25.
(0.40 a.m.) While particularly heavy Bring ness circles.tment and busi- especially in the Woosung sector, the Ing the Italian Cously pre-occupy-ret
around Shanghal to-day, pathy was felt with Japan when she comparatively quiet.
great sym- International Settlement has been
Joined
against
Germany in the anti-Bolshevik Fact, the Japanese campaign
Diverting attention from Pootung, China has come as a painful surprise.poo during the afternoon concentrated the Japanese warships in the Whang- will find the their fire on the Chinese Hines on the tremendous Shanghai side of the river, and shell- strain and that Soviet Russia willing was still progressing Inte last grow relatively stronger.-Reuter.
It is feared Japan Chinese adventure
R
night.
•
The first sign of Chinese serial activity occurred in Shanghai to-day when a solitary plane hummed un
over the Japancre flagship Idzumo about 10 pm. The warship fred
lights and opened with
scen
| fier - anti-aircraft guns, but without
any apparent effect. The Chinese visitor dropped two bombs, which fell romewhere in the eastern district with heavy explosions,
Meanwhile, the Japanese officially announced that their machines had bombed Ningpo and Anking, capital of Anhuci province during the day, Inflicting "serious losses."-Reuter,
Gun Duel Lull
Shanghai, Aug. 25. The duel between- Japanese wormed ships and Chiness artillery in Poo- tung was lulled after, three:Japanese i patrol" planés: look to the alt: san
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