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"Greatest Action Shanghai Has Ever Witnessed"

JAPANESE REPORTED TO

BE NEAR EXHAUSTION CHINESE OFFENSIVE NORTH CHINA

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PROPORTIONS RETREAT

London, To-day.

Yesterday's Chinese attack, when Chinese troops launched an offensive which assumed unpre-

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cedented proportions and Chinese planes caused TO PLAN?”

considerable confusion in the Japanese back areas, was the greatest action that Shanghai has ever witnessed, says the Shanghai correspondent of the "Daily Express.

FOREIGN POISON GAS EVIDENCE

Nanking, To-day.

A joint statement testi- fying that a number Chinese soldiers are suffer- ing from the effects of Jap anese poison gas, has been signed by Dr. Borcio, League Health represen tive, and Dr. Hrefinge chief of the Nanking Cross Hospital-Reuter.

making the Japanese

Paping, To-day. as possible for their gains.

In any

case, both schools - Chinese defeats in North China are attributed by a Japanese mili-thought agree that after the with- drawal, the Chinese command will The correspondent says that the Chinese gain-tary spokesman to lack of effec- have a better chance of co-ordinat

tive leadership and central-control. ing its forces. ed considerable ground in the Hongkew sector,

The Japanese claim a further ad- He said the divisions fought while the Japanese lines in Chapei were almost and retreated independently of vance in the Tientsin-Pukow Rail- blasted to bits by the Chinese, who were using me any general plan, often abandon-way zone as far as Chengchuang, în

ing tenable and carefully pre-Shantung, 25 miles north of chanised units with telling effect.

pared defences with scarcely a Yellow River.

The situation in North Shansi is struggle.

GENERAL WITHDRAWAL? In spite of Chinese claims of others believe that the Chinese are following a prearranged plan to victory in the Yuanping area,

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Japanese warships anchored in the river were subjected to heavy shelling by Chinese batteries in Pootung, but the damage done cannot be ascertain- ed.

The spokesman's view is endorsed still obscure by many foreign observers, although

Foreign observers stated last evening that un-withdraw to the Yellow River after less further reinforcements are received, the exist- ing Japanese forces in Shanghai will not be able effectively to withstand further such onslaughts.

Tapanese troops on the Hongkew and Kiang- wan fronts are reported to be completely exhaust- ed.

UNITES STATES PROGRAMME FOR FAR EAST

Indescribable scenes of panic, says the correspondent, were witnessed in the city itself, where houses were shaken by the detonations of bursting shells and bombs, and the roar of bat- tle obliterated all other noise.

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Chinese ran screaming through the Settlement following an explo sion opposite the North Station, iwhere 15 were killed by a bomb.

NORTH STATION CARNAGE Bloody hand-to-hand fighting took substantially that an attempt at place in the North Station area. the mediation in the Sino-Japanese Japanese finally being forced to dispute would be the first step to

Hyde Park (N.Y.), To-day. Replying to a question, Pre- sident Roosevelt yesterday said

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„be considered by the Nine-

Power Conference on the Far was made in reply to a reporter's Bast

question whether mediation was a Asked what would follow if fair assumption to be drawn from mediation efforts failed, the Pre- the President's speech on Friday. sident replied, "That is a hy- President Roosevelt replied that he had said that in so many words, pothetical question.”

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