Woosung Casualty Report Ridiculed By Chinese
HUGE LAND MINES UNDER WITH THE
ATTACKING FORCE
MORE NIGHT RAIDS ON NANKING ROAD
CHINESE INLAND
CITIES
Shanghai, To-day.
SHELL HAVOC
Wing On's Glass Alone $100,000
FUSILIERS IN SHANGHAL
SHANGHAI TO-DAY. "WHATS THE LATEST NEWS FROM HOME?” WAS THE QUESTIONSA REU- TER CORRESPONDENT WAS CONTINUALLY ASKED WHEN While foreign military and naval HE TOURED THE NORTH experts continue in the attempt to STATION DEFENCE SECTOR ascertain the source of the missile HELD BY THE ROYALWELCH which caused such tremendous loss FUSILIERS.
Shanghai, To-day.
"We will keep on fighting till we have smashed the Japanese,” declared Lt. Woo Chuang, inter- viewed by a Reuter correspondent in the Chinese corner in Nanking Road, the police home? They had taken off their lines opposite the North Station sector held by the for resumption of traffic Royal Welch Fusiliers.
of life and property at the Sincere's The men themselves Tere "at
are rapidly clearing up the street shirts and
washi
The costly nature of the damage chalked can be gauged by the fact that plate
cks and sandbag
No Credit
other reminders of England
idly.
were
"Biddy's
The Chinese troops seemed confident of even-glass destroyed in Wing On's de Tavern, Alf and "Aff, 6d" and tual victory. Their rations were plentiful and their health and morale good.
They were armed with German-type rifles manufactured in China and wore German-made tin
hats.
LT WOO CHUANG CLAIMED THERE HAD BEEN SOME LOOTING BUT IT HAD CEASED AFTER SUMMARY EXECUT TIONS.
THE INTERVIEW-ENDED WHEN JAPANESE NAVAL SHELLS FROM WOOSUNG LANDED UNCOMFORTABLY
CLOSE-REUTER.
JAPANESE ESTIMATES RIDICULED
partment store along is valued at over $100,000, while the damage done to Sincere's cannot at present estimated-Reuter.
QUIET NIGHT
be
The troops manning one of the
DOG ADOPTED
redoubts had adopted a small black Chinese dog which had been found wandering homeless."
Shanghai, To-day
"It's a one-man dog, explained Lone Fusilier. "At first it wouldn't Shanghai, To-day. eat and I had the devil's own time Shanghai passed a comparatively making friends, but now it thinks quiet night, which was broken only I'm the blooming 0.C. Reuter by the occasional boom of gunfire, but the usual aerial activity is ex- CHINESE TOWN pected later this morning-Reuter. NEARLY WIPED OUT JAPANESE CARRIER NEAR HSUCHIACHEN, Lotienchen, a small town in the Paoshan district near Woosung, has been nearly wiped out by fire as Shanghai, To-day. a result of incendiary bombs drop- One of the three Japanese air-ped by Japanese planes. craft carriers anchored off Woosung Official Japanese estimates that 100 Japanese has moved to Hsuchiachen, north the town in an attempt to drive The Japanese bombers attacked soldiers were killed during Monday's landing at of Chuansha, it is learned here. the Chinese entrenched
here out Woosung, are ridiculed by the Chinese, who claim It is believed that the Japanese of their positions. that terrific casualties were caused by the Chinese cover landing of marines in land mines, which were blown up beneath marching area. Central News. men while the Japanese troops were moving to- wards their objectives. Reuter.
Shanghai, To-day.
WOOSUNG A MERE DIVERSİON
Shanghai, To-day.
Chinese observers believe that the main land- ing of Japanese troops took place at Chapu, on the Chekiang coast between Shanghai and Hangchow. Landing of detachments near Woosung and other places on the Yangtse is believed to have been a manoeuvre calculated to distract attention from the main landing-Trans-Ocean.
T
JAPANESE RAID NANKING,
ANKING, NINGPO
Nanking, To-day.
An official Chinese announcement says that nine Japanese bombers carried out a night raid on the capital and dropped fifteen bombs outside the Kwang Hua Men.
One Japanese bomber was shot down south of Chuyung, fifteen miles from Nanking, by Chinese pursuit planes.
In Shanghai, the Japanese officially announce that their planes yesterday bombed Ningpo and Anking, capital of Anhuei Province, inflicting "seri- ous losses. Reuter.
are planning to use planes again to
Japanese planes flew over Kash- that ing yesterday and dropped bombs, but no damage was done. Central News.
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