| Show Japanese Ready TC To Accept Truce 1 In Orient Strife Offer to Withdraw to if Chinese Chines Quit Desperate Attack on Nipponese Forces Fails By United Press WASHINGTON Feb 9 Admiral 9 M. M M. M Taylor advised advise the navy department today that Vice Admiral corn man mantling manding ding Japanese forces at Shanghai had told naval officials offU oh daIs that the Japanese would accept a truce whereby they would retire to the area and the Chinese to an anarea anarea anarea area 20 miles beyond outside the northern border of the international settlement By H. H R. R EKINS Copyright 1932 by United Press SHANGHAI Feb 9 The 9 The Chinese infantry rushed rushed- Japanese Japanese Jap Sap anese artillery positions but was flung back after a furious attack late in today's terrific fighting along the mile 20 Shanghai Woosung front The Chinese went over the top in the Chapel sector just before dusk dusk- They came over in waves after a heavy artiller artillery artillery ar ar- ar- ar tiller tillery and machine gun barrage and advanced within yards of the Japanese lines before sharp fire counter-fire forced them to drop back The Japanese rushed reinforcements reinforce reinforcements ments from rom Admiral No No- muras mura's flagship lying ling in m the I river Their army and manine marine ma ma- rine nine forces held their l lines nes under the desperate Chinese rush but the tide tideo o of battle was in doubt until the reinforcements rein reinforcements came into the front line defenses I Heavy losses were reported on both sides The Chinese advanced through the shell holes and blackened ruins of Chapel just over the border of the thel international onal settlement Their artillery artillery ar ar- ar tillery fire flung countless shells into the fringe ringe of the foreign area Many landed w well ll within the boundary during dur dur- ing big a day of renewed terror I tried to get an accurate list o of casualties from both sides but headquarters headquarters head head- headquarters quarters refused to give out the fig fig- ures There is no doubt the dead and wounded ran ran high but responsible authorities refused to accept obviously obvious obvious- ly wild estimates heard on all sides You can get new figures of that sort hourly At 7 15 p. p m. m a. a m. m E E. S S. S T. T the fighting waned on the Chapel sec see tor ton It ended a day of the most severe severe se se- se vere battling in the fortnight of the fight for Shanghai The danger to the international settlement was feared cared growing rowin d uly tily One foreign woman was wounded by shrapnel as shells flew new thick over the settlement The Japanese concentrated their attack earlier in the day at Woosung where 33 units of their fleet gathered to bombard the forts Carts The Chinese put up an amazingly stubborn resistance resistance resist resist- ance and as far as I could learn tonight tonight to to- night no material change in the r relative relative rela rela- la- la tive pos positions had occurred there dei de- de i Continued on PIe Pase Three JAPAN lAP AN READY TO END HOSTILITIES I Continued from Page Pue One I spite the heavy y Japanese firing and land attacks The Japanese apparently consolidated consolidated consolidated consoli consoli- dated their positions along Woosung creek between the village and the forts at Woosung 10 miles mites down the river from Shanghai proper They succeeded in laying a temporary bridge over the creek to replace the theone theone theone one blown up by the Chinese but th the Chinese continued to hold their badly shot up forts The lines held by the Japanese Inthe Inthe in inthe the sector were extended across the Woosung railway spur in inthe inthe inthe the direction of the race racecourse racecourse racecourse course prior to the Ch Chinese nese attack this evening The movement indicates indi cates the fighting front on this salient within the native area is lengthening Meanwhile a momentous conference conference confer confer- ence of Chinese military and civil authorities gathered in the offices of Mayor Wu Teh-chen Teh in the native area It seems to me they have decided decided dc de- de- de elded on a desperate effort to bring some semblance of unity out of the chaos in government and meet the Japanese with a solid front Such men as T. T V V. Soong the fi finance ii- ii nance minister Dr H. H H. H Kung Soong's law in and former minister of commerce and industry former Foreign Minister C C. T. T Wang Wellington Koo widel widely known diplomat diplomat diplo dip mat in the old northern regime at now affiliated with the Nan- Nan king group and others including Yu Yu-jen Yu Ku yu Meng-yu and Chiang Tso- Tso ping aing erstwhile minister to Japan attended at at- tended ended the meeting The They TheSe sent serit telegrams to 10 Chinese abroad appealing for or funds to make possible protracted armed resistance against Japan General Chiang nai Kuang-nai of the Chinese military command defending defending defend defend- ing the cit city was one of at the prominent army leaders lenders present at the conference conference confer conler- ence that convened shortly after it was reported the Chinese arm army might consider withdrawing if the wealthy Chinese bankers and merchants inside inside in in- side the settlement paid them The sum mentioned in these rumors for their word not to attack the settlement settlement settlement settle settle- ment was Shanghai dollars dol dot lars roughly in n United States currency |
