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NAKAO BRIGADE BADLY CUT UP Chinese Bombers Still Harassing Warships BREACH IN JAPANESE LINE ARMIES AT

NEAR JUKONG WHARF

BUT NAVAL GUNFIRE RENDER POSITION

UNTENABLE

Shanghai, To-day

JUKONG WHARF DEATH GRIPS

CARNAGE

Landing Party's Heavy NEAR WHARF

Casualties

Shanghai, To-day.

SHANGHAI TO-DAY AFTER A NIGHT MARKED Hundreds of Japanese are believ-

BY SPECTACULAR AIR RAIDS ed to have been killed or drowned BY CHINESE PLANES, WHICH when they attempted to land at the TRIED TO BLOW UP JAPAN- Jukong Wharf late last night.

ESE WARSHIPS IN THE Under cover of darkness several RIVER, THE JAPANESE TOOK THE INITIATIVE THIS MORN- boats loaded with Japanese troopa After a day marked mainly by artillery duels from one of the ships in the vicin-ING, SUBJECTING THE CHI

ESE LINES TO A and bombing raids by Japanese planes, Chinese ty made for the Wharf.

HEAVY BOMBARDMENT planes kept the International Settlement awake they were met with terrific ma when Chinese and Japanese troops About two hundred yards away, Fighting took place yesterday into the early hours by staging a number of specta- chine-gun fire from Chinese who were at death grips between Jukong cular raids upon Japanese warships lying in the had forced their way through ear-Wharf and the Far Eastern Bace river. Tales upon Japanese w

One misdirected bomb fell in the yard of the British-owned China Import and Export Lumber Company.

The yard was set on fire, causing damage esti- mated at $500,000. Reuter.

NAKAO BRIGADE SUFFERS

Shanghai, To-day.

lier in the day. Our Own Corres-Course at Kiangwan pondent:

The Chinese pushed back the Japanese but as they advanced

MORE TRANSPORTS the open, Japanese warships planted

Landing Troops In Hongkew

Shanghai, To-day.

Four Japanese transports loaded with troops have arrived here to-day and will be immediately disembark ed at Hongkew, indicating that more

The Chinese claim that they almost wiped out intense fighting in this the entire Nakao Brigade during a fierce battle Hua Nan yesterday.

Several officers, including the Commander of the Brigade, were killed in action. This is admitted by the Japanese military spokesman.

NANTÃO BOMBING

area.

a succession of shells in their midst

ginal lines.

and forced retirementese

The Chinese deny

have

report that Japanese troops from Woosung and Yangtsepoo effected a junction. Reater.

Geneva-Bound

Paris, To-day

Senor Juan Negrin, Premer of the Valencia Government, who will preside at the Council meeting, left here yesterday for Geneva after a visit in which he conferred with A number of Japanese planes sys- leaders of the French Government. tematically bombed and machineTrans-Ocean.

Shanghai, To-day-

The Japanese were outnumbered and would gunned Nantao, Footung and

have been annihilated had not re-inforcements been out yesterday causing many casual Amoy for this Port on the 8th rushed to the field.

Kochangmiao and Chapel through- The P. and O. s.s. Shirala” “left

The Japanese, however, inflicted heavy losses on the Chinese forces on the Yangisepoo front, when eight Japanese planes per- sistently bombed the Chinese positions all along the Yangtsepoo- Kiangwan front

THE CHINESE POSITIONS ON THE WHANGPOO FRONT WERE ALSO SUBJECTED TO HEAVY BOMBING LAST NIGHT.

-OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

NO DECISIVE SUCCESSES

Shanghai, To-day.

Violent fighting but no decisive successes by

ties and damaging scores of houses. stant and is due here on the 10th

Hua Nau

instant at about 6 am.

GERMANY

either side, seems to characterise the situation on When travelling in Germany and on German ships the Shanghai front.

The Japanese launched powerful attack south reduce your expenses considerably by carrying west of Lotien without gaining ground and late last night the battle there was still raging

On the eastern Yangtsepoo front, the Japanese occupied the so-called military road near the Ju- kong Wharf but the Chinese, by a brilliant flank ing movement, drove them back to the docks, where the Chinese counter-attack was brought to a stand- still by that bugbear of the Chinese troops, the guns of the Japanese warships

A Japanese landing on the Pootung side, down river, says a reliable source, was driven off with heavy losses.

The Japane

5.000 men,

at Yangisepoo.

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