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Chinese Bombers Set Enormous Area On Fire

JAPAN CONTINUES AIR DAVIDSON PLAN

RAIDS ON NANKING CAPTURE OF WAYSIDE JAPAN'S REPLY TO WHARF INSISTED ON TRUCE PROPOSAL

Shanghai, To-day.

The bitterest fighting in the Shanghai conflict

- to date is now going on, though neither side has yet succeeded in gaining the upper hand to any large extent.

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Tokyo, To-day. "In the present critical situation in Shanghai, Japan is unable to ac- cept the proposal, handed in by the The Japanese have rushed reinforcements to

British charge d'affaires, to with Yangtsepoo in motor-lorries, while sixteen steam-draw her troops from Shanghai and ers, with 20,000 troops on board, have arrived off to create a neutral zone.” Woosung from Japan.

They will probably attempt to make a landing under cover of darkness at Liuho, 27 miles north- west of Shanghai, so that further extension of the fighting zone can be expected.

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London, To-day.

Although the Davidson Plan at Shanghai has been rejected by Japan and unfavourably received in Nanking, diplomatic quarters in London are still of the opinion that the plan is likely to come for discussion agam at a later date.

It is understood that the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, will report to the Cabinet, possibly next week, on the situation at Shanghai,

and will define the policy to be pursued by Britain in this

So declared a spokesman of the It is further learned that the Foreign Office to newspaper corres

French Government has now- mitted its reply in which it-for-

pondents in Tokyo yesterday.

Japan, added the spokesman, remulates its attitude to the British served the right to protect Japanese pl

interests in Shanghai by the ployment of all means at her

Aeroplanes of both sides continue to be ex- posal Trans-Ocean.

tremely active. Six Chinese planes bombed Hong- kew while Japanese machines retaliated with raids on North Station and the Chinese positions further

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JAPANESE RAID ON NANKING

Nanking, To-day.

Six Japanese light bombing planes again ap- peared over Nanking yesterday, a

Chinese planes immediately went up in pursuit and the raiders made off.

Later in the day, another eight Japanese ma- chines appeared and dropped bombs, one falling on a small munitions depot and another on the dor- mitory of the University.

Fires which broke out were quickly extinguish- ed, says an official Chinese announcement, and the damage was slight.

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