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Terrific Bombardment Shakes Shanghai when Ships Shell Pootung

NANKING'S BOMBERS RAID RIVER NAVAL ANCHORAGE DARINGLY: ONE SHOT DOWN IN FLAMES

(By John R. Morris)

Shanghai, Aug. 17 (11 a.m.).

The Japanese naval authorities announced to-day that a strong Chinese attack had been repulsed in the Shinghung Road sector of Chapei. The attack cost the Chinese about 400 killed. .

In a gray and misty dawn a general battle began on Shanghai's war front, but after hours of shelling by both sides there was a short

lull at 10 a.m. when the Dollar Line tender left the Customs Jetty for Woosung with refugees aboard. The tender went down river close

to the Shanghai side, under the guns of two Japanese cruisers.

As the tender pulled away from the jetty, three big Chinese bombers came roaring down the Whangpoo and dropped bombs at 10.15 a.m. The Japanese warships in mid-stream, including the Idzumo opened fire with anti-aircraft guns. An observer on the roof .of Sassoon House saw one of the Chinese planes hit by a shell and fall

in flames in Hongkew.

Five other planes were seen hombing in the vicinity [

TREASON

"BIG SWORDS" FLASH DEFIANCE

In North China such soldiers as these are in action against the Japanese. They prefer swords in action at close quarters. According to Chinese despatches, troops at Nan- kow, Tientsin and other seenes of conflict, went into battle swinging such weapons, and distinguished themselves.

Ambulance Party Going To Shanghai

In Capacity Of Volunteers

The simple message, "S. O. S.", received by cable from Nanking by Mr. A. Morris, Director of Ambu- lance, in Hongkong, to-day will be answered shortly.

The local St. John Ambulance Brigade and Association have recely. ed from London permission to send units to the war troubled areas and on Thursday next, at the Hotel Cecil, a tea-party will be given at which volunteers to go to Shanghai will be

of the Japanese Naval Landing Party headquarters. A GERMANS DIE FOR called for little later one machine roared out of the mist and cloud,. crossed Soochow Creek and dropped two bombs close to the Idzumo. The effect of the explosions was not immediately discernible.

on

Beneath a shrapnel-torn Union Jack the ninth floor balcony of Sassoon House's tower, Robert Bellaire and I, wrapped in raincoats, huddled under the parapet and watched a grim battle scene enacted below and above us. When a seaplane from the Idzumo rushed in our direction with a machine-gun covering us, we dodged into shelter.

areas.

Shells which must have come from Shells have been burst continuously heavy Chinese artillery, were falling for the past half hour over the North regularly in Hongkow district and Szechnion and Range Road Bradually creeping nearer the Whang- These are from Chinese guns, A. poo and the long line of Japanese war heavy calvo atruck near the intersee- craft. One of these shells started a tion of Pueston Road and the Shang- big fire in the godowns beside the hal-Woosung railway Intersection:

a quarter of a mile from where there are Japanese positions, river prly a

Consulate. Thirteen succession in the vicinity

Japanely Chinese, struck inj

the intersection of North

At 8 nm. ambulances, with sirens

THREE BEHEADED

YESTERDAY

Berlin, Aug. 16.

were executed i

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The permission asked from London Headquarters was referred to the Hongkong Government whose decl- was that the members of the Brigade cannot go to Shanghal ar such, but that they may go in their private capacity as volunteers.

Air. Morris stated that he would

Three Germans to-day after being found guilty of and that they would take a number seiling military secrets regarding of appliances, frontier defences to foreign powers. In previous messages Nanking had The military authorities state that asked the St. John Ambulance Brt

men were beheaded-Reuter gade of Hongkong for "everything

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STOP PRESS NEWS

Tokyo, Aug. 17.

A Foreign Oflice spokesman to-day expressed bewilderment of aereami, raced along the Bund to a lo why Japan should be the target for foreign protests against Szechuen Gongice. The southern limits her military operations in Shanghai. He points out the Govern

and Range Roads about 7.20 a.m.

A of Hongice is under heavy are and ment cannot abandon its nationals despite a desire to avoid

minute later Japanese warships in the shells are creeping nearer. The disaster. Citing the 1925 Shameen incident, he said no one com- the river resumed a briefly interrupt- repercussions are shattering the glass | piained when British senmen repulsed the Chinese, Japan was. ed shelling of the Pootung positions. in the windows of Sassoon House.

Another fire has started on a wharf or ship opposite Hongkew, on the Pootung side.

UNION JACK PROTECTION

EFFECTIVE SHELLING

fire

is in

The Japanese warships becoming increasingly effective Pootung. Shells are dropping within half a mile of the waterfront. A new fire has started. The Bund on the Settlement ste is International crowded with spectators.

"A Mexican númed R. R. Brandt, special United Press reporter and photographer since last Friday, drove his car across Garden Bridge at 7 a.m. Rain-soaked Union Jacks futter and followed Broadway for one short above most of the bulldings in this block, then took the senward rond, Faction and others are stretched and where a Japanese sullor escorted hiin

on roof-tops to warn away Japanese by a circuitous ru

A small water boat, the Tien Skul, calmly Jack, flying the Union chugged up the Whangpoo about this theizung and time between Destroyer 10. 22 and proceeded to the Nanking Fond jetty,

the

around eastern, northern and western sides; Han Chincão bombers..

tan is broken and hang of Hongkow Park to the permaina qualy frame. Herdoon barracks of the Japanese Naval Land the creat the corner of ing Party which has been heavily Trang North Stochten Roads. shelled for three days and which has been the scene of bitter fighting. The Japanese still hold it securely despite the rumour that the Chinese, had taken it.

A stray shell must have struck the still uncompleted block.

IDZUMO OPENS FIRE

The izumo's big guns opened fire on the Pootung positions ni 8.01 a.m. The river-front fire on Pootung sido was then apparently under control; with at least, the smoke was, almost im- not perceptable.

TROOPSHIP ARRIVES The Okama Moru has arrived here.

troops aboard. The Japuntse do admit it, but people who have

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( defending Shanghai in the same manner, he said.

United Presa,

H.K.

PREPARING

TO HOUSE BIG REFUGEE ARMY

Comittee at Work To Find Quarters

PREPARE

TO RECEIVE

PATIENTS

HOSPITAL

A meeting was held this morning to take the first

POOTUNG HEAVILY SHELLED

Japanese Navy Bombarding Concentration Shanghai War Zone Extended

Shanghai, Aug. 17. Under the most terrific naval bombardment, repercussions of which have rocked Shanghai and sprend panic among the popu lace, the Japanese at 10.30 o'clock last night attempted to land troops where the Whang- poo joins the Yangtze River for the purpose of advancing against the very heavy Chinese concen- trations in the Pootung arca, across the Whangpoo from Hongkew.

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This sudden bombardment Iruns- ferred the major operations to the Yangtze delta, where six inch naval shells are falling with devastating effect among the Chinese troops massed there. They can answer only with machine-guns and light, rapid- fire weapons, against which the best

feet cruisers in the Japanese pitted.

The dashes of the Japanese guns yellowed the sley last night, and the twinkle of distant machine-guns and trench mortars was almost incessant in Pootung. The Chinese are taking the most terrible punishment they have ever received. They are being hammered by a Japanese fleet which,

the ever since it crushed

Russian naval power in 1905, has been itching for an opportunity to show how much it has learned,

Victory In Two Days..

Japanese military and naval offl- cers who are directing the operations I said the bewildering bombardment of the Yangtze delta was destined to elve them full military control the entire, frightened Bhanghal area within two days.

Just before the

of

Japanese fleet started its action against the Pootung Chinese trenches, diners were literal- ly blown out of their sents by an awful explosion on the Whangpoo which is variously attributed to Lorpedu explosive-laden junk launched at the Idzumo.

Or

At the time of the explosion this correspondent (Mr. Bud Ekins) was trying to cross the Whangpoo in a sampan for the purpose of travelling

sea. He

step in the formation of the Refugees Committee, which to Tangkuzda, two miles from the will deal with the welfare of 2,000 or more British women and children expected within the next two or three days from Shanghai.

An official communique to the Press will be available this afternoon, but details learned so far are that Mr. J. H. Taggart, Dr. T. W. Ware, Hon. Mr. R. M. Henderson, Mr. G. H. Bond and Mr. J. H. B. Lee are among the members, who will probably co-opt several unofficial persons to assist them.

Brigadier H. G. Seth-Smith will probably not take over the chairmanship as was first proposed owing to extra military duties entailed by the Shanghai crisis.

A Reception and Welfare Commit-

tee will be formed and sub-commit- tees will deal with the medical side and with registration.

cables were received A number by Hongkong residents this morning and during last night, from friends asking for accommodation to be arranged for their families on their way from Shanghai.

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Intimated that the Jockey

Club is being approached with a view to using ita commodious buildings at Happy Valley which have several sections easily adaptable to tem-

quarters. porary living

The Committee la recommending that Victoria Hospital ho re-opened and put into a state of preparedness for the possible evacuation of Shang- tal Hospital. In that event the patients would be brought to long- kong by ship and taken direct to Victoria Hospital.

It is learned from the local medi- cal authorliles that all refugees from Shanghai will be inoculated against cholera on arrival in Hongkong, be- fore they land.

GLEN SHIP BEING USED

The Glen Line steamer Gleniffer, which was previously due to arrive here to-day from Shanghai, has been delayed according to a cablo received (Continued on Page 5.)

CONCERNED OVER SHANGHAI

Foreign Diplomats

Still Active

Seek Reduction

of Risks

London, Aug. 10. To-day's news from Shanghai, which includes the arrival there of the 2nd. Battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers from Hongkong, shows no diminution of the tension resulting

of the bombardment. But the ex- plosion so terrified the boatman that he refused to cross the river. And no amount of money would tempt any- one else to try the voyage.

Amazingly Accurate

The Japanese fire is amazingly de- curate. The shells are landing only a mile behind extensive foreign- big owned property, Including the

plant of the British-American To- bacco Company,

While the Japanese are making the this supreme effort to dissolve

Poolung. Chinese concentrations in the highest officials of the Shanghai Municipal Council and the Consular body declare they arc proceeding with the most elaborate evacuation plans, not because they fear for the destruction of Shanghal but because they fear disease, It is pointed out that women and children must be sent away immediately because gas is already cut off and the electricity supply may go next. There is al- ways the danger of the waterworks in Yangtsepoo being disabled.

Moreover, there are 1,000,000 re- fugees in the French concession and International Settlement in the heat of mid-August, without shelter or sanitary arrangements. The dreadful prospect of epidemie must, 'therefore, be factd.—United Press.

MEMORIAL TO AMERICANS

MEN WHO DIED IN BRITAIN

London, Aug, 10. from the week-end's events, but fur-

A memorial to six hundred Ameri- ther Chinese air raids over the Inter- can soldiers who died in Britain dur- national Settlement are not reported, ing the Great War was unveiled to- and it may he hoped that, following day at Bokwood, where the bodice the strong protests lodged at Nanking of the men are buried. by the British Ambassador and other The names of the men have been diplomalle representatives, such cut in the walls of the chapel which action, involving appealing danger to consiliutes "the" [memorial---Réuler

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