1937-08-23 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGU,

BRITISH

TROOPS

MORE SANDBAG

CHINESE CLAIM TO

HAVE SEIZED

VITAL BRIDGE

Shanghai, To-day.

ARRESTS IN SALAZAR

ERECTING DEFENCES MURDER PLOT

8,000 HOUSES DESTROYED

Hongkew Holocaust Continues

Shanghai, To-day.

Lisbon, To-day.

Six weeks after the attempted bombing of the Portuguese Pre- mier, Dr. Salazar, the police have succeeded in arresting all those implicated in the plot.

Names of those arrested have been withheld so far. They will be tried shortly. Trans-Ocean.

TANKS

It is estimated that at least 8,000 Bitter fighting around the burning city charac-houses in Hongkew and Yangshupoo MAIN A.P.C. TANKS terises the situation in Shanghai. The situation is ruins by fires in the past three days have been turned into smouldering generally unchanged, despite heavy air and artil- and nights, some of which lery activity.

were

caused by Chinese incendiary bombs

SAVED

and some by Japanese for the pur-Sixteen Hours Work By

Chinese troops.

Kwauming Road have been entirely

Brigade

With the return of the two fire- floats from the A.P.C. installation down river full details were obtain-

The Chinese report capture of the Hongkew pose of checking the advance of Creek Bridge, whilst the Japanese report consider- All houses at Paoting Road and able success of their cleaning-up actions.

The Japanese have landed new troops within engulfed, while a number of big the International Settlement on the Japanese piers. Chiahsing Road, Wuchow Road and ed of the saving of the two main

Numerous great conflagrations are continuing along the line Hongkew-Yangtsepoo.

The French and British have started erecting fortifications along the south-east corner of the city în anticipation of a critical situation which might result from extended Japanese offensives this week-Trans-Ocean.

FRESH TROOPS FOR THE LINE

Shanghai, To-day.

It is reliably understood that the 1st and 2nd Chinese crack Divisions have replaced the 87th and 88th Divisions at Shanghai-Reuter.

CHINESE TANKS IN ACTION

Shanghai, To-day.

The fighting in Shanghai continues with un- diminished violence, the Chinese having brought tanks and armoured cars into action for the first time.

fires

are

still raging

around

tanks containing thousands of tons of lubricating and other oil. A vast

Woosung Road. Hundreds of houses behind the Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company building have been quantity of 50-gallon drums of oil razed to the ground-Hua Nan

and wax containers caught fire or blew up, to the peril of the small band of firemen from the Harbour Fire Brigade.

GOVERNMENT RELIEF GRANTS One Million For Refugees

Two bombs were dropped by the Chinese planes, which were appar- ently aiming at a Japanese cruiser - in mid-stream, and the godowns caught

This spread to the ol

Nanking, To-day. The Chinese Government has ap-drums. The wharf coolies imme propriated the sum of $1,000,000 for diately fled, and the foreign resident relief of war refugees in the Shang-engineer had to board a launch and hai-Nanking, Tientsin-Pukow, Pei proceed all the way up river to

ping-Hankow, Peiping-Suiyuan and summon the Fire Brigade, the Poo- Kiaotsi railway areas.

tung telephone service being totally Of this sum, $450,000. is for re-interrupted. lief of refugees in the Shanghai- The bombs were dropped at 4.15 Nanking Railway area, who at pre-p.. and the Poochi and the Hun- sent are estimated to total from ing were on the scene by 5.40 p.m., 300,000 to 400,000-Reuter. the delay being ane both to the lack of communications and the strong ebb tide.

SIEGE OF NAVAL HEADQUARTERS

Shanghai, To-day.

Both fire floats were soon in ac- tion with their biggest hoses, The Japanese Naval Headquarters pumping water on the flames at á at the end of the North Szechuen rate of over 8,000 gallons a minute. Road is being besieged on

three So strong was the pressure on the [hoses that the firemen frequently

Shortly after midnight last night the war zone sides. was lit up in eerie fashion by the roaring flames of After successfully driving their lost their footing and slipped and gigantic fires in Yangtsepoo.

The Settlement fire brigades were, naturally, helpless, being unable to get anywhere near the fires.

wedge toward the Wayside Wharf, stumbled in their attempts to bring the Chinese troops are forcing their the powerful jets of water to bear way eastward in face of stubborn where they did the most good. Japanese resistance. Bayonet

charges and counter charges con- stitute the main feature

fighting-Hua Nan.

Agreement had been reached on Saturday that at noon on Sunday the Garden Bridge, over Soo- SHANGHAI MEN chow Creek, would be evacuated by the Japanese, but at a late hour last night Japanese marines and REFUGEES FOR sailors were still there.

SHAMSHUIPO

British troops are now erecting additional sandbag defences on the bridge-Trans- Ocean.

STRONG WIND SPREADS FIRE

CHINESE CLAIM IMPORTANT DRIVE

Gigantic Blaze In Heart Occupy N. Szechuen Rd

Of Hongkew

At Jukong Road

BLAZING WAX

At times, the main tanks seemed of the to be enveloped in sheets of flame, but long and strenuous work finally resulted in their being cut off from the danger. The firemen were se verely handicapped by the huge clouds of black smoke, the typhoon wind and the terrific heat which often grew so intense that the fire- men had to turn their backs. Drums The Blue Funnel liner, Maron, is exploded and shot high into the air, now lying in Kowloon Bay waiting while melted wax fowed every- to discharge her Shanghai refugees, where, and the sixteen or so fire- many of whom are men.

men were standing in literally two feet of melted wax

It is understood that Shamshuipo Camp is to be used as a temporary concentration centre for the men

Shanghai, To-day

EIGHT SABOTEURS EXECUTED IN LENINGRAD

Shanghai, To-day. A strong south wind is spreading The right flank of the Chin

conflagrations in Shanghal forces has occupied the

tion of Jukong and North Szechuan

Moscow, To-day.

rapidly

Shanghai is indeed threatened Roads near the Isis Theatre, ac- with disaster worse than any ever cording to an announcement made Eight alleged counter-revolution- experienced before by the fact that by the Chinese military headquararies, accused of sabotage in ce the fire brigades are prevented ters this afternoon

tral Russian munition plants from attacking the burning build-

The main body is now pressing of plotting the assassination of ings-as most of them are in the

north towards the Japanese Naval executives, were executed fighting zone. Nothing is therefore Landing Headquarters.

yester being done to stop the flames.

day.

The biggest fire is one spreading Huge fires are raging on Woo- The execution was carried through the block buildings sung, Haining and Range Roads in after sentence of death bad tween Hongkew Creek and Broad-the Hankow district. Central passed by a Leningrad court way Mansion—Trans Ocean.

tial on Friday Reuter.

The was soon overflowed into the river and as it caught fire, prox to be another da flowed under

the

elling

COAST DEFENCE

Shanghai, To-day.

Owing to Japanese attempts to out land at Linho and Wusoong, more been Chinese troops have been despatch- mared to these two places Our Own

Correspondent.