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THE CHINA MATE, SEPTEMBER 9 1937.

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NANKING PLANS COUP Four Hundred Volunteers For Tokyo Air Raid TROOPS' HEROISM AGAINST JAPANESE HEAVY TANKS

SEVERAL PUT OUT OF ACTION AND DESTROYED

Shanghai, To-day.

Sensational rumours are going the rounds in circles usually well-informed that the Nanking Government is planning the most dramatic coup of the Sino-Japanese conflict by a mass air raid on Tokyo and the industrial districts.

Four hundred members of the Chinese air force, says one quarter in Nanking, have volunteer- ed for such a raid, although they well realise that many of the participants may never get back.

The Chinese Supreme Command is, therefore, said to have ordered that out of each family with officers in the Air Force, only one member be pick- ed for the venture. Trans-Ocean. MAGNIFICENT BRAVERY

Shanghai, To-day.

Using heavy tanks for the first time, the Jap anese broke through part of the ring of Chinese concrete pill boxes and have captured Kiangwan Race Course.

At one time the Japanese mechanised units reached the Administration buildings of the Muni- cipality of Greater Shanghai but were almost liter- ally thrown out when Chinese troops counter- attacked with magnificent bravery, hurling bombs through slits in the tanks.

Several tanks are known to have been put out of action and destroyed.

In the Woosung area the Japanese once suc- ceeded in crossing Nansiting Creek but found themselves in an extremely precarious position -owing to accurate Chinese machine gun fire, and

the advance was halted decisively.

Chinese aeroplanes made a surprise raid on the Japanese warships off Woosung yesterday even- ing, but the results are not known.-Trans-Ocean. CHINESE RESOURCEFUL

Shanghai, To-day.

A Japanese spokesman, chatting to journal- ists, admitted that the Chinese forces in the Shang- hai area were making extremely clever use of the terrain between Paoshan and Kiangwan.

Foreign observers here seem to think that the Chinese are bound in the near future to retire on their previously prepared positions, not because of military defeat, but because the troops are abso lutely exhausted by days of fighting without sleep.

The Japanese air force, says a foreign source, is being constantly reinforced, while the Chinese authorities are apparently husbanding their planes for some future date. Trans-Ocean.

WOOSUNG ACTION advanced further on the Woosung

Chinese Claim Advance

nghai, 1:30a.m. To-day.

claim that they

Font The Japanese

at Lotien but failed to Chinese are steadily encircling the

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CHINESE REACH JUKONG WHARF Find Position Too Exposed

Shanghai, To-day.

FRONTAL ATTACKS

BREAK DOWN

Japanese Repulsed In Woosung Sector

Shanghai, Today

One of the most bitter engage- ments of the campaign was fought in the Woosung last night In

the course of fighting, the Ja- panese made four frontal attacks The Chinese made a rapid advance on the Chinese line, which cost them along the Chunkung Road, on the heavily in casualties. They failed northeastern border of Hongkew, to break through the Chinese line. and it is officially claimed that the Japanese forces entrenched along Jukong Wharf but were compelled Creek, attacked yesterday. Some at- Chinese vanguard once reached the the Wancho Creek and Changhua to abandon it owing to the position tempted to cross the Nanszetang being too exposed to Japanese naval Riverlet by means of pontoons, but attack-Hua Nan.

NIGHT RAID ON WARSHIPS Vain Japanese A.A. Fire

Shanghai, To-day. Chinese planes paid a further nocturnal visit to the Japanese warships last night, harassing the men-of-war which vainly tried to shoot down the raiders.

The Royal Ulster Rifles, on duty in the North Station de- an anxious

fence sector, had

time yesterday as shells from the Chinese lines nearby.

Japanese warships, exploded in

Meanwhile, the trustees of the British Boxer Indemnity Fund have decided to appropriate the sum of $500,000 towards estab lishment of a university at Changsha and Sianfu to accom-

modate students from institu- tions in the war areas which have been forced to close down.

-Beuter

they were checked in midstream by Chinese machine-gun fire and suffer- ed many casualties.-Hua Nan

KWANGTUNG AIR DEFENCE

Two Japanese Planes Shot Down

Canton, To-day Canton Air Headquarters sent out six pursuit planes yesterday after- noon to search for a number of Ja- panese planes which were reported to be heading for Canton via Bias Bay. The invaders did not reach Canton Two Japanese planes were shot down in a raid on Swatow. Hua Nan

While carrying a load of

grass along over her shoulders, Ho Ching- mui, was knocked down by a lorry in Pokfulum Road yesterday and was admitted to the Queen Mary Hospi tal -

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