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Serious Fighting Near Jukong Wharf
ALL LINES UNALTERED
TIENTSIN FRONT
Japanese Now Think Their Forces Sufficient
TENSION RELIEVED
Paoting, Sept. 1.
JAPAN'S POLICY
Government Asked To Clarify Its Attitude
APPEAL BY POLITICIANS
London, Sept. 2. According to military intelligence A message from Tokyo states that received here to-day, 1,000 Japanese a full inquiry into the objectives of attached to artillery units left Tien-cation of the Government's purpose Japan's action in China, and clarifi- tsin to-day for Yangliuching, about was recommended at a meeting of 20 miles west of Tientsin. Shanghai, Sept. 1.
the Seiyukai (Conservative)
Party The Chinese have reinforced their Another detachment of the Kwan- by three of its leaders.
Eight *ung Army arrived in Tientsin to-day
leaders urged that the party and are being billeted in the Palitan make its aims in China
should
Government to press the barracks. Central News.
more pre- funda- cisely known and establish mental national policy in accordance firmly-defined objective.
Character
on
NERVOUSNESS IN SOUTH AT FEAR defences at Patsechiao,
OF AIR RAIDS
MORE REINFORCEMENTS
Main interest in the Shanghai war is centred on the fighting on the Woosung-Liuho front, where the Japanese officially claim the occupation of Lion Forest Forts on the coast about 10 miles beyond Woosung.
There was heavy fighting at Liuho and Woosung yesterday, when the Chinese launched a counter-attack against the Japanese at Lotien. Chinese reports say that a Japanese attempt to take Paoshan, north of the Woosung forl, was repulsed after a severe engagement in which hundreds of the invaders were killed.
Five Japanese transports and a supply ship arrived at the Japanese wharves in the eastern district of the International Settlement on Wednesday night and landed men and material in darkness. The Japanese deny the landing of Manchukuoan troops.
Chinese leaders are confident of winning the war after a long and bitter struggle. Mr. T. V. Soong says that Japan is destined to find China a morass in which the Japanese armies will sink the further they drive inland. He predicts that all the $500,000,000 Liberty Bonds will be taken up within three months.
Baulked by the Tientsin Consular Body in their attempt to take over the Chinese telegraph service in Tientsin, the Japanese military authorities have established their own cable service connecting Peiping and Manchukuo,
There is still much nervousness in Canton, Fukien and Kiangsi regarding possible Japanese air raids. The Canton Government has ordered all passage-towboats, launches and motor boats to avoid the bund and to anchor in the inner harbour near the foreign gunboats.
The Japanese and Chinese lines within the Settlement war zone remained unchanged yesterday despite occasional and severe exchange of fire in various sectors.
TWO FOREIGNERS SHOT
Shanghai, Sept. 1 (9 p.m.).
the coast about ten miles beyond Crack Chinese troops are now Woosung.-Reuter. pouring into Yuehpu, a small town
Desperate Battle about a mile and half north-west of
Shanghai, Sept. 2 (4 p.m.).
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Liuying Bridge, Road in Chapei.-Central News.
Fighting Spreads
Shanghai, Sept. 2. Japanese troops were landed at the Jukong Wharf early yesterday morn- ing, deploying out in a wide area. Fighting broke out immediately in the vicinity.
At 6 o'clock in the morning, a detachment of Japanese attacked Chinese entrenched at the Far East- ern Race Course, a mile west of the Jukong Wharf. The attack was
120,000 Japanese Troops
The
a
with Tientsin, Sept. 2. Japanese troop movements to Otherwise, the leaders declared that North China have been virtually it would be impossible to have a completed, the leaders believing perfect policy in regard to the han- them strong enough for any exigency. dling of troops, military operations, The number of Japanese forces in finance and national economy, and North China is estimated at 120,000, the Japanese people's minds would and is possibly more.
not be at rest.
The suspension of reinforcements has eased the tension in the conces-
The recommendation sounds criti- cal, but it is believed to imply a de-
intended to cover operations by a sions where Japanese conduct has mand for a more positive policy to-
Japanese engineering corps to bridge the creeks at Kuanyinchai and Wang- chiachal nearby, but when the Chi-
the nese discovered
they ruse, promptly shifted their positions and commenced a brisk fire in the new region, foiling all attempts to build the bridges.
A party of Japanese advanced on Luchiachai, about half a mile north of the International Settlement boundary near the riverfront late in the morning. The Chinese troops stationed there withheld fire until the Japanese had moved unsuspectingly into a semicircle of Chinese troops, at which time the Chinese opened fire from all sides, killing a large num- and forcing the remnants of the Japanese party to disperse.
At about the same time, another party of Japanese attacked the Chi- nese lines at Kuanyintang, about 1,000 yards south-west of the Jukong Wharf, but the Chinese held firm and forced the attackers to retire after а short skirmish.
ber
Following the landing of Japanese regulars who have taken over the Yangtsepoo area yesterday, the marines who have been holding Japanese positions in the area have been shifted to the Hongkew sector. -Central News.
Chinese Concentration Shanghai, Sept. 2 (11.20 a.m.). A Japanese spokesman said the Japanese had silenced the Chinese shelling of Hongkew from Chapei.
The Japanese dropped nine shells within half an hour on Paoshan Road in Chapei district, where it is re-
is
a Chinese concentra- ported there tion following the arrival of heavy reinforcements. United Press.
Positions Unchanged
(4.07 p.m.). Shanghai, Sept. There was a severe exchange of fire in sectors around Shanghai, where the Chinese and Japanese lines are still unaltered.-Reuter.
REINFORCEMENTS
Paoshan and a mile south of Lion All throughout the day the Chi- Fresh Japanese Landing In
Forest Fort.
nese and Japanese battled desperate- The Japanese are expected toly for possession of Lotien and Kia- launch their initial drive at Yuehputing. The former remains in Ja- where they hope to establish direct panese hands and the Chinese retain link with the Japanese flanks
Kiating. Lotienchen and Woosung.
at
If the Japanese succeed in co- ordinating their forces, they are eve pected to launch a general offensive on the Chinese positions in the King wan sectors and from there on to
The Settlement
USING IT AS A BASE
caused frequent protests. The Bri-wards China.-Reuter. tish concession is strengthening the outer barricades despite Japanese assurances that troops will avoid the FIGHT TO THE END
British concession.
It has been revealed that some Tokyo taxi-drivers have been assign- ed to trucks and have been responsi- ble for much of the reckless driving in Tientsin.-United Press.
TIENTSIN. SERVICE
Japanese Establish Their Own Cable Line
Shanghai, Sept. 2.
"Christian General" Visits the Front
LEADERS CONFIDENT
Shanghai, Sept. 2 (4.11 a.m.). A visitor to the Chinese front line
Baulked by the Consular Body in yesterday was Marshal Feng Yu- their attempt to take over the Chi-hsiang, the "Christian General" and nese telegraph service in Tientsin, vice-Chairman of the National Mili- Japanese military authorities are tary Affairs Commission in Nanking. reported to have established their
He told interviewers that the Chinese bitter end for the would fight to the own service, handling messages to and from Peiping and Manchukuo. sake of world peace and China's own The rates are the same as those existence. He paid a tribute to the charged by the Chinese Ministry of Chinese commanders, who he said Communications.-Reuter.
were mindful only of their "divine duties."
"Reuter.
A Bitter Struggie Shanghai, Sept. 2 (3.37 p.m.). In an interview, Mr. T. V. Soong said that China is doomed to a long and bitter struggle, but he predicted that she will eventually be victorious. He said peace will come when Japan realises that she is in a lane that has no turning. "Even before the war, Japan's finances were tottering from the burdens of militarism. Her huge expenditures now merely accelerate the inevitable. She is destined to find China a morass in which the Japanese armies will sink the further they drive inland."-Reuter.
PEIPING POSITION
Japanese Putting Up New Gun Emplacements
Shanghai, Sept. 2. Reports from North China say that
becoming Peiping is daily
more impregnable with gun emplacements on permanent foundations replacing the earlier hasty defences.-United
Press.
KALGAN OCCUPIED
Japanese Line Extends To Sea Front
CANTON AIR RAID
Japanese Plane Blown Up By Own Bomb
CHINESE
COMMENDED
Shanghai, Sept. 2.
Canton, Sept. 1. A bitter land, sea and air battle is
Tientsin Japanese reports that With its petrol tank leaking, pene- being waged at Paoshan, known as
the territory from Kalgan to thetrated by Chinese machine-gun bul- where the gallant Chinese garrison, the world's smallest walled city,
Shanghai, Sept. 1. sea is now actually occupied with lets, the Japanese bomber which was Eight Japanese merchantmen, all military forces, deployed defensively, destroyed in Tuesday's raid could forces, has withstood for 10 hours ments from Japan, arrived off although cut off from other Chinese fully loaded with troop
reinforce and also retaining mobile offensive have been brought to the ground by the naval shelling, aerial bombing mouth of the Whangpoo River short-
the troops where needed.-United Press. its pilot without difficulty. Unfor- lines in and
tunately for the Japanese there was land
artillery. The city is ly before midnight last night, it was
a bomb hanging beneath, which ex- aflame but the battle continues. Big Push Imminent
disclosed to-day. One of the vessels,
ploded during the landing and des- Kiating, which has the Shanghai, Sept. 2 (4.11 a.m.).
main
troyed the plane and its occupants. accompanied by a warship, proceed- highways in the Yangtse delta, is ed to the vicinity of Liuho, The setting for Japan's prospec-apparently the chief
dis- The wrecked machine was tive big push on all fronts in the
Japanese ob-
covered near Tungkoon and found to jective-United Press. Shanghai and Woosung areas is be- ing completed.
the rear of the Chinese Chapei. Central News.
Yesterday's fighting, though severe, was regarded only as a curtain rais- er.-Reuter.
Paoshan Not Captured Shanghai, Sept. 2 (10.29 a.m.). The Chinese admit the loss of Woosung village, but deny that the Japanese have captured Paoshan
Reuter.
Heavy Japanese Casualties
Shanghai, Sept. 2. The 2,000 Japanese troops who of Woosung landed in the vicinity Fort yesterday made a frantic at- tempt to take Paoshan, but were re- pulsed after a severe engagement. Several hundred Japanese are re- ported to have been killed and in- jured.
HARI-KARI HEROES
It is also disclosed to-night that 2,000 Japanese landed last night
PROPERTY DAMAGED
around Woosung Village and the Woo-Tung Chi Varsity and Wing
On Mills Suffer
sung Fort area. Central News.
Settlement Landing
Shanghai, Sept. (4.11 a.m.). Shanghai, Sept. 2 (7.30 p.m.)
Chinese quarters regard the dis- embarkation of Japanese troops in Recalling the legendary human the eastern district of the Settlement bombs of 1932, Japanese returning a confession of poor success at- from the front extolled the latest as a con hero, Sub-Lieut. Watanabe of the Liuho-Woosung coastline and assert tending the landing operations on the Seventh Company, Eleventh Division; that the presence of the Japanese who while fighting at Lotien against troops is final confirmation that the wounded and the most stubborn resistance was cried,
Japanese are using the Settlement as "No Japanese
a base of must be taken prisoner."
operations. Besides munitions and other war After that he committed hari-kiri material the Japanese also landed in immediately and then 50 of those this section of the Settlement four wounded beyond hope in the hospital and six-inch guns mounted on cater- resorted to hari-kari.
pillas--Reuter.
Thirty eight members of the com-
Three Japanese Divisions The Chinese are rushing reinforce- pany were shot dead, the only sur-
Shanghai, Sept. 2. ments to the Paoshan area where vivors being a commissioned officer, Three Japanese divisions, repre- fighting is still in progress.
and a senting the a non-commisioned officer
crack troops of the Fighting broke out near the Naval handful of prijates.
Japanese Army, have arrived in Hospital, about a mile south of The Japanese have officially admit-Shanghai during the last few days, Wangtsaopang Creek on the Whang- ted that they suffered very heavy it was revealed to-day.-Central
at 10 o'clock. The Japanese losses before the capture of Liuho, News. attack consisted of several hundred Lotien, Paoshan, Woosung Forts and men who had under-estimated the Lion Forest
Forts. They praised Chinese numbers in the region. Chinese resistance and bravery under The attackers were forced to with- fire. United Press. draw after several hours of fighting. -Central News.
poo,
Push Towards Lotien Shanghai, Sept. 2 (11.20 am.). A Japanese military spokesman said that the Chinese were attempt- ing retaliation. However, the Japan-
Manchukuo Troops Shanghai, Sept. 2 (11.20 a.m.). A Japanese spokesman
said that Japanese troops were landing daily in Shanghai and its vicinity. He denied the presence of Manchukuans.
BOMBERS IN ACTION --United Press
ese repulsed them. Japanese army: Spectacular Japanese navy and air forces were flercely attacking Paoshan, which the ad-
vance guard reached yesterday.-- United Press.
Severe Engagement Shanghai, Sept. 2 (4.07 p.m.). Heavy fighting is reported at Liu- ho and Woosung to-day when the Chinese launched a counter-attack against the Japanese at Lotien. They met with resistance from the air, land and sea.
At Nightfall
Raid
Unloading in Darkness Shanghai, Sept. 2 (4.07 p.m.). During the night five Japanese
rived at the Japanese wharves in the transports and one supply ship ar-
and
eastern district of the International Settlement and unloaded men material in darkness.-Reuter.
POOTUNG SHELLED
Chinese Artillery Duel
With Warships
Shnghai, Sept. 2 (4.11 a.m.). Warfare has laid Woosung in ruins. Among the buildings demolished are the Tung Chi University, run by Ger- mans for Chinese students, and the American mortgaged Wing On Cot ton mills, owned by British and Australian-born Chinese. The bomb- ing of the Tung Chi University was so intensive that even bomb proof dug-outs had to be evacuated.
Reuter.
UNIVERSITY DAMAGE
Shanghai, Sept. 2 (7.10 p.m.). Chinese official sources state that the Japanese bombing of Tungchi University at Woosung has caused damage to the extent of $10,000,000 Shanghai currency.
Peiping despatches reported that American marines have been assign- ed to protect the Yenching University, 10 miles from Peiping, which is closely linked
with Harvard.-- United Press.
TALES OF HEROISM
Japanese Slaughtered By Big Sword Corps
say
Shanghai, Sept. 2 (10.29 a.m.) Both sides recount stirring tales of heroism in yesterday's fighting in the Shanghai area. The Chinese many Japanese were slaughtered by parties of troops who make sorties in the night with their famous big swords-Reuter.
SESSION POSTPONED
Shanghai, Sept. 2 (7 p.m.). Amidst gorgeous, yet most ominous sunset skies, red splashed behind | black clouds washing back from the Hongkong typhoon, four Japanese bombers gave Shanghai spectacular good-night when they carried out a Meanwhile the Japanese spokes- reconnaissance on the Shanghai front, man announces that the gap in the after which in rapid succession they line between Lotien and Woosung power dived over the Markham Road has been filled but admits that yes- railway yards, dropping 11 bombs,
Shanghai, Sept. 2 (10.20 a.m.). A Sino-Japanese duel, the Chinese terday's claim of the capture of each of which flashed red amidst the Paoshan
He says clouds of dust, was premature.
smoke and debris, firing from Pootung and the Japanese Japanese vanguards have reached setting a long string of conflagrations replying from warships in harbour, the outskirts of Paoshan, where a which lit up the black night already initiated a fresh day's hostilities this
Nanking, Sept. 2. large Chinese force is now complete- aflame by a line of fires half a mile morning.
In a meeting here to-day, the at Yangtszepoo.
The exchange of fire followed a Central Executive Committee of the The Shanghai fires eclipsed in bril-quiet night which the Japanese Kuomintang voted to postpone inde- liance, the flames illuminating Lotien, were busily preparing for their big finitely its Fourth Plenary Session Liusong, Woosung, Paoshan and Lion push which is expected to be launched which was scheduled to open here Forest Forts.-United Press.
very shortly--Reuter.
on September 15.-Central News.
$33.50 nett
$28.50 nett $16.50 nett $16.50 nett
ly cut off.-Reuter.
etc.,
etc.,
etc.
L'HEURE BLEUE
MITSOUKO
Forts Occupied
Shanghai, Sept. 2 (4.32 p.m.). The Japanese officially claim the occupation of Lion Forest Forts on
long
be equipped with wireless for send-
ing and receiving.
Commander Hoh King-wai, leader of the 15th Chinese air squadron, the was the man who shot down Japanese.
"General Yu Hon-mow yesterday and con- commended the aviators gratulated them for their excellent work in chasing off the raiders. They will be commended before the War Board in Nanking
Shipping Precaution
Yesterday government ordered all the passage-boats, launches and large Bund. motor vessels to leave the They are now in the inner harbour. Thus they are all in close proximity to the foreign gunboats, and the Bund is not so likely to be bombed, which would be sure to cause great loss of life. Our Own Correspondent.
RAID
OVER KIANGSI
Japanese Bomb Misses***
Telegraph Office
Canton, Sept. 1. After finishing their work in Can- ton the Japanese planes made for Pingyuan in Kiangsi. They were after the telegraph office
and one bomb was directed at it, but it miss- ed entirely, striking a road and kill- ing one peasant. Our Own Corres- pondent.
ATTACK ON FUKIEN
One Japanese Aeroplane Downed at Changchow
Foochow, Sept. 1. One of the Japanese planes which took part in the air raid on Chang- chow on August 31 was shot down south of Lungyen, it was disclosed to-day. Central News.
Aircraft Carrier
Canton, Sept. 1. At noon yesterday six Japanese bombers come from the big carrier that is lying off Nano near the Fukien border of Kwangtung. When two bombs were dropped into the Magis- tracy office at Chaoling the back part of the Magistracy was blown in. Six guards were injured-Our Own Correspondent.
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