1937-08-26 — Page 7

THE CHINA MADI AUGUST 26, 1937.

Severe Fighting On Woosung-Shanghai Road CHINESE HOLD ON IN FACE DECISIVE BATTLE

OF HEAVY GUNFIRE

Shanghai, 9.15 a.m., To-day.

Nearly all the Chinese reinforcements contin- ually arriving from Nanking are being sent for- ward to the Woosung and Chengju defence sector, while the troops in Chapei and Yangtsepoo are fighting a holding engagement

Heavy fighting was resumed at dawn to-day after occasional night attacks by the Japanese which were not pressed, and reports indicate that the Chinese are holding their ground.

TABLE BAY HARBOUR DEVELOPMENT

Capetown, To-day.

A £2,000,000 contract is being given by the South African Gov- ernment for the development of Table Bay harbour.

The project will include reclaim- ing of 200 acres which will be

Tenders are being called for in in Britain, Capetown and Johan- nesburg-Reuter.

were not entirely destroyed and were captured by the Chinese.

A high Chinese military spokesman declared added to Cape Town late last night that ability to ward off the new men- ace was not seriously doubted, but he declared that no effort would be spared to prevent danger to the International Settlement and that a strategic with- drawal to prevent encirclement of all troops in the Hongkew and Yangtsepoo sectors would be order ed, if there was any danger of success of the Jap anese offensive on the Woosung-Shanghai Road and on the Chinese left flank. pondent.

BROUGHT TO STANDSTILL

Fourteen Japanese fiers, some of them seriously wounded, have been

brought to Nanking.

The Chinese lost five aeroplanes Our Own Corres-and five pilots killed. Trans-Ocean.

Shanghai, To-day.

Further Japanese attacks on the Woosung- Liuho front early this morning reached the out- skirts of Kiating, where the drive was halted by strong Chinese reinforcements and the Japanese were brought to a standstill.

Although the Japanese made several bayonet charges they could not break through the Chinese lines.

The Japanese artillery is now shelling the Chin- ese positions heavily, apparently in preparation for a new infantry attack.-Trans-Ocean.

TROOPS IN CHAPEI FALL BACK

Shanghai, To-day.

A high Chinese official, interviewed by Reuter, said that some Chinese troops yesterday began to withdraw a certain distance from the North Sta- tion sector for tactical reasons.

He explained that this line would change the positions of certain sectors but the North Station itself was still held by Chinese troops.

Meanwhile, it is authoritatively learned that the 1st Central Government Division, manning posi- tions north of Soochow Creek, are to be replaced by militiamen-Reuter.

NANTAO BOMBED LAST NIGHT

French Troops Arrive: 5,000 More Coming

Shanghai, To-day. The terribly overcrowded Chinese native city, Nantao, whence went thousands of refugees from Hong- kew and Chapel, was bombed Japanese aeroplanes last evening for the first time since the opening of hostilities.

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The French battalion from Annam has arrived in Shanghai and the early arrival of a further five, thousand troops from French Indo- China is expected Trans-Ocean.

JAPANESE PLANES

SHOT DOWN-

Twenty-Four In Eight Days

Nanking, To-day.

headquarters

Chinese air force

here announce that 24 Japanese

The raiders later dropped incen- aeroplanes have been shot down

Kiangwan Docks during Japanese attacks

the

Arsenal, and the huge columns Shanghai Nanking area from

CHINA COAST

BLOCKADE

Tokyo, To-day. The Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese 3rd Fleet who yesterday declared a blockade against Chinese ships in Chinese territorial waters, dated to-day that the measure is directed exclusively against China, and Japan has no in-

tention of prejudicing the shipping interests of other

Powers.

The Foreign Minister, Mr. Koki Hirota, is expected to

make a statement reasuring the Powers. Trans-Ocean.

EXPECTED

Shanghai, To-day.

The dawn of the fourteenth day of the Shanghai war found the Chinese artillery, from hid- den emplacements in the North Station area, steadily bombard ing the Japanese positions in Hongkew without response.

Meanwhile, decisive develop- ments are expected to be wit- nessed in the Shanghai area in the next few days.

Although both sides claim successes, independent quarters agree that the Japanese pres- sure, especially from her war- ships, has been too strong for China

It is even reported that the Chinese forces have begun with- drawal from Kiangwan but the Chinese contend that any troop movements which may have taken place are merely part of their re-dispositioning plans. Reuter

WARSHIPS SHELL BOTH SIDES OF WHANGPOO

Shanghai, To-day Japanese serial activity Shanghai yesterday ceased at nightfall but the warships kept on shelling the Chinese lines on both sides of the river. The Chinese left the sky to the Ja- panese yesterday by at 2 o'clock this morning a single Chinese machine, flying at a high alt tude, hummed overhead, giving the Idzumo an anxious time.

The Idzumo shot up Verey lights and fired her AA guns but failed to hit the raider, which disappeared after fif- teen minutes without having dropped any bombs-Renter

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of smoke emerging indicate that August 23. much damage was done.

Some of the planes brought down