Show DEATH DEA TH TOLL IN SHANGHAI HUGE Ja Japanese p anese Bombardment and Fire Turn Native City Into Shambles i i I 8 Br nt Associated Treat Press SHANGHAI Jan 29 The 9 The battle o othe ol of the section o of Shanghai which has rated raged practically continuously continuously continuo since last midnight when the Japanese invaded the city Illy had become become become be be- come a virtual massacre toda today as leaping flames and roaring air bombers bomb ers withered the place Onlookers who thronged the root roof rooftops tops of the sk skyscrapers in Shanghais Shanghai s business section throughout the dayto day dayto to w which watch the area become a shambles of 01 terror and death said the slaughter ter to among the Chinese fonts ants was tugs enormous Japanese airplanes roared over the me spot every 20 minutes releasing a thundering mass of bombs against which the Chinese were powerless to defend themselves except with their feeble rifles and machine guns The fire which was started by the first bombing last night grew into a roaring conflagration as the attack continued It licked its way through the he narrow streets of the mud hut but and cobblestone c city ty as a prairie plair e fire ire might attack the nests oIa of oI ofa a colon colony of field mice SIX FIRES RAGE Six separate con conflagrations roared their heir way at once There was las noone no noone noone one to check them and they soon outstripped out stripped the thc n military action in danger threatening to wipe out the greater part of The Commercial Press building and md the railway station against the theatter latter atter of which the Japanese had directed di vetted several se destructive bombing attacks were finally reached by the flames lames and gutted The freight sta sta- lion ion further westward also was blazing blaz blaze ing ng by p p. p m. m and another Mother fire fanned by a slight northeasterly breeze crept dangerously close e to the international settlement Earlier in the thc afternoon a badly aimed Japanese bomb landed within the he boundaries of the western end of the he the settlement and started d a fire tire but buthe the he blaze was put out without casual casual- tics ics although considerable damage was vas done The huge bombs t which the air air- planes nes dropped with regularity regu larity anty sent up tip eruptions to a height of at least feet The sky was partly obscured by clouds o of smoke from rom the fires and the airplanes swooped down through them The terrified people were faced with a dilemma of terror They had hd the he choice of staying in their huts and being burned to death or fleeing into the open to be shot or torn to pieces by bursting bombs The fire department of the international inter national settlement was gravely alarmed over one of or the fires which by 6 o'clock was teas creeping perilously close to the settlement border on the north side Every possible preparation lion ion was made to begin fighting it as soon as it reached the boundary in order to prevent its crossing crosing The printing plant of the cial clot Press reputed to be the largest in fn n the thc world was destroyed It turned out an enormous number of English language books newspapers and magazines and millions o of copies topics of pamphlets and books in Chinese TROOPS ON ax WAY tivAi Reliable reports received at 5 S o'clock this afternoon said 2000 additional additional addi- addi ional Japanese troops were on the way vay to reinforce the 2000 marines then hen in Chape Following the thc bomb which tell fell into the he settlement about 2 p. p pm p.m. m. m another landed on the edge o of the district inthe inthe in the he residential area where many for live These Immediately be bc beran gan ran evacuating their homes and ing ng into the thc settlement for lor lion ion As darkness again descended tonight to night it was apparent that Chapels Chapel's ordeal was far from finished and that another night o of horror was teas in pros sect peel for tor the people who have been stricken error stricken through the day b by he the battle and the fire Chinese workers throughout Shanghai Shang hai threatened tonight to go out on a general strike tomorrow as a protest against the Japanese action at Cha Chao pet pel It was tugs expected i if the strike ma ma- that public utilities would be bc c paralyzed and that a stoppage of he the movement o of foodstuffs into the international section mi might ht create a serious situation I Chinese banks also declared they would not open tomorrow The Chinese chamber of ot commerce declared a general strike in the set I dement as a protest against the Japa Japanese nese nose attack Business was gas at a complete com standstill British consular and military authorities au au- viewed the situation with growing anxiety as the thc battle spread with growing fury lons alon along the fife borders of the thc settlement and Chinese troops began to arrive e in thousands fromN from N to resist the Japanese im inva a sion lion Both British and United S States tes authorities authorities au anxiously awaited news from London and Washington Surprise Surprise Sur Sur- prise was expressed by many British residents that there had been no word that British warships were mere speeding to Shanghai to give a protection protection tion lion to the foreign communities in a situation they said that grew more dan dangerous crous every hour Every bit of ol available manpower in the settlement was mobilized on the borders of ol the I area this evening t |