Show CHINA CLAIMS RETENTION OF fiGHT IT CENTER Still in Hands of Defenders States Of Official Official Official Of- Of Bulletin TROOPS ARRIVE Japanese Insistence of Capture Capture Capture Cap Cap- ture Refuted By MORRIS J. J HARRIS ARRIS Associated Press Tress Staff starr Correspondent SHANGHAI Sunda Sunday Feb 28 28 center of the bitterest fighting along the whole Shanghai front was still in Chinese hands early carly this morning General Tsai Tin Kai Ting said in a bulletin from Chinese head head- quarters The Japanese insisted last night I that the they had swung a circle clear around the village and taken it over ending at last the stubborn opposition tion which had held out for a week against the strongest attack of the I Japanese army I READY FOR ACTION The uThe government at has hassent hassent hassent sent me mc two more divisions to rein rein- reinforce reinforce force orce the nineteenth route army General Tsai's said This additional force will Ro go into acion action action ac- ac tion ion when the Japanese offensive is renewed The harbor master down the Whang- Whang poo reported early today that two Japanese transports loaded with troops had arrived off of Woosung These apparently were the first detachment detachment de de- de- de I of ot heavy reinforcements sent from Japan During the past several da days S cargo steamers have been I arriving with amun tion and supplies for or the Shanghai expeditionary force each one of ot them carrying com comparatively comparatively para para- small numbers of ot soldiers CLOCK TIMES BATTLE Th The hands of the big clock on the customs house tower in Sha Shanghai hai marked midnight when th the heavy guns throwing shells at each other across Chapel went into action again To the noncombatants in the international international inter inter- national settlement it sometimes seems that the gunners are timing their attacks b by that clock which is Js plainly visible to both front lines Continued Continued on on Pace Pase Two Tco CHINA CLAIMS RETENTION OF I fiGHT CENTER Continued from rom Pace e One This mornings morning's cannonading continued con con- for more than an hour I Japan to Evade Russian Crisis B By GLENN BABB Associated Tress Press Staff aft Correspondent dent Copyright 1932 b by Associated Press TOKIO Feb 27 Japan 27 Japan is not likely likely likely like like- ly to court another international crisis crisis cri cri- sis with Russia government spokesmen spokes spokes- men were quick to point out today in m commenting on the queries of or the Russian government regarding military military military mili mili- tary operations in northern Man Marl churia The Russian queries presented by L. L M. M Karakhan acting soviet commiss commissar com corn miss for lor foreign affairs turned General Jiro Tamon's northern Manchuria Man Inn churia churla campaign into an international Issue and took official Tokio completely completely com corn by surprise especially in view of the complaisance Moscow l heretofore has shown toward Japans Japan's operations In the Harbin district PROBLEM IROnLE LOCAL Spokesmen for the war and foreign foreign foreign for for- eign ministries alike asserted today Japans Japan's Japans Japan's Japans Japan's Ja Ja- Ja- Ja that hat Russia's nervousness over pans pan's Intentions In north Manchuria were verc based on distorted interpretations of the situation and magnified a purely local problem to unwarranted unwarranted unwarranted unwar unwar- ranted dimensions dimensions- The war office said it lacked any information to support M. M Karakhan's statement that General Tamon or ordered or- or dered 17 trains of or 50 cars each for lor an advance on the town to of naya and there was no intention of an advance to the Russian border The mission of General Tamon's intended expedition the war office said was merely to disperse followers of General Ting Chao who were reported operating in the po PD district General Tamon it said was fully empowered to deal with details like train transport without reporting to Tokio and hence the war office was ignorant o of the exact size of his order It was confident however the spokesman said that M. M Karakhan's figures were exaggerated because General Tamon Intended to use only part of the three brigades now at Harbin in the camp campaign The he war office was apprised he said of considerable Russian troop movements movements move move- ments on the and Amur frontiers frontiers fron- fron tiers but these were merely an evidence evidence evi evi- dence of Russian apprehensions over the he Manchurian situation which Jaan Japan Japan Ja- Ja pan an does not share He denied emphatically the Japanese Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese military authorities were conniving conniving con con- DIving in any way to encourage encourage wh white t Russians and he suggested reports of their activities emanated from the whites themselves perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps to help raise funds |