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VIOLENT

ATTACK

'Sledge-Hammer' Blow In Hongkew Sector

CAPTURE OF PAOSHAN OFFICIALLY CLAIMED

OBJECT OF NEWEST

OFFENSIVE

Shanghai, To-day.

A sledge hammer attempt to shatter the Chinese troop concentration west of the North Sta- tion-Kiangwan sector was started this morning by the Japanese.

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CROWD

DISORDER AT MONGKOK

Apparently mistaken for a Jap

anese, a Chinese pedestrian

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U. S. And Hoover Bombing Germany and Sino-Soviet

Fact

Moscow Reinforcing Far East.

Army

Chinese Heroism at Woosung Japan Rejection of British Note

Predicted

The Wanchai Incident

was rushed to the police were sent from but no difficulty

in keeping the crowd and trol although th

Polic

ese crowd in a demonstration in that.

While planes overhead emptied their bomb-severely manhandled by a Chin racks, guns from the Japanese warships and artil lery on land pounded the Chinese lines with high explosive shells.

Chinese replied to s

Hampered by a lack of anti-aircraft guns, the the bombers with machine-guns and opened up against the Japanese land and sea forces with artillery.

Object of the Japanese drive is to strike northward with the proclaimed intention of at- tempting to isolate the Chinese forces in the Kiang- wan and Woosung areas. Reuter.

out

Shanghai, To-day.

The Japanese officially claim to have captured the walled town of Paoshan, north-west of Woo- sung.

Reuter

CHIANG MUST FIGHT WAR

OF MANOEUVRE

London, To-daying defeat, he might, with the help

Informed circles in London of General Geography, hold out for generally feel that if China bada long time.

ted Japan now, on would

RING ROUND SHANGHAI

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Mongkok Road, near the Mong-badly kok Police Station this morning.

The incident apparently develop-

en to On

ed in somewhat simmlar manner as to the

did the Wanchai affair, by an indi

vidual shouting "Poison," and

Lame the

cusing an old Chinese woman of Facter poisoning her child.

that

She also was attacked, but cued by the police before the crowd groun could do her harm.

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