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Show Shanghai A rmyamsBackJapanese BATTLE RAGES HEAR LINES OF U. S. MAMIES Major Victory in War Claimed by Nippon Army Chiefs By H. R. EKINS (Copyright, 1937, United Press) SHANGHAI (Friday), Aug. 20 Chinese regained the offensive of-fensive on one sector of the bitterly bit-terly contested northern Shanghai Shang-hai front at 2 a. m. Friday. After they had been driven back earlier by an Interna Japene aerial and naval bombardment, they reorganised their lines and drove forward In the Kungplng road district They fought their way to Seward road and were within two miles of the garden bridge across Boochow creek entrance to the Anglo-American defense area of th International Interna-tional settlement. At 1:30 a m. the Japanese dispatched dis-patched more than a doxen tanks, armored cars and other reinforcements reinforce-ments to the sector. All of Kungping road appeared to be a roaring battlefield. The Japanese Jap-anese seemed to be starting a counter-attack in an effort to drive out Chinese regiments which occupied a wedge in the Japanese lines in eastern east-ern Hongkew. Earlier Japanese bluejackets, storming the Chinese trenches at bayonet point, won a major victory in ttie biggest battle of the Shanghai war, it was asserted by Japanese sources. Reinforced by thousands of navy men from the homeland, the blue-Jackets blue-Jackets went over the top in East Shanghai, at the extremity of the international settlement They smashed into the Chinese trenches and it was asserted officially offi-cially that they threw back the Chinese in disastrous defeat for several kilometers. This offensive was combined with a terrible bombardment of the Chinese Chi-nese positions Just north of the international settlement. Japanese Close In The Japanese closed in their war relentlessly toward the foreign settlement set-tlement and sent the United States, French and British navy commanders command-ers in chief into emergency conference con-ference at the United States consulate. con-sulate. Japanese artillery and the cruiser Idzumo opened a shattering bombardment bom-bardment of the north railroad station sta-tion area while airplanes rained bombs on the Chinese trenches. Great bursts of flame spurted up from the station area A big Japanese fleet of bombers went up the Yangtze and bombed Nanking, the national capital. Th American consulate announced an-nounced that Japanese planes apparently ap-parently the same aquadron bombed the school of the central China Christisn Mission hospital, at which Americans are stationed, and one mission residence. Americans Unharmed Miss Nancy Fry. Bedford, Ind., telegraphed the consulate that all Americans were safe. The mission is situated at Nantungchow, 160 miles up the river. It was asserted that In their raid on Nanking the Japanese exploded a big munitions dump. In their general offensive in East Shanghai the Japanese captured th (Continued on Pas Two) I Column Four) CHINESE STOP NIPPON DRIVE (Continusd from Psss One) Shanghai university grounds and continued northward. Japanese airplanes operating over Shanghai bombed and, it was asserted, as-serted, blew up the Shanghai-Nanking railroad bridge at Henll, disrupting dis-rupting rsil traffic and impeding the arrival of Chinese reinforcements. reinforce-ments. Two Japanese warships moored opposite the International settlement settle-ment waterfront, farther up the Whangpoo than they had gone before, be-fore, and thia added to ths danger to foreigners. Ships Shea City Down river. Japanese warships bombarded Chinese on both sides of the city with thundering salvoa from their biggest guns. Two Japanese planes, diving low. bombed and almost destroyed the American Southern Baptist mission, evacuated last week. From six to nine Japanese planes were in the air most of the time over the north station. Mob violence broke out again and Americans of the Shanghai volunteer volun-teer corps went into action. The unit Involved was a machine gun company, one of four American units In the volunteer corps. It was called out to disperse a mob that attacked Chinese suspected of spying for the Japanese. The American business msn in the company com-pany quickly broke up. with the aid of an armored car, the mob that sought to beat to death the men suspected. Food Brought In United States marines and volunteer volun-teer cosps men brought into the settlement, under arms. 40.000 bags of rice and 50.000 pounds of butter to aid in feeding the 1.000.000 refugees refu-gees crowded into the foreign area. American people and American interests as well as those of other foreign nations were becoming more Intimately Involved every hour In the unofficial war. Soldiers of the famous British Royal Welsh Fusiliers regiment put out a fire near the North Klangse road exchange of the American-owned American-owned Shanghai Telephone company. com-pany. The fire, it was said, was started by Japanese bombs. Two Japanese gunboats moved up the river to a point Just off the international in-ternational waterfront, within 500 yards of the United States cruiser Augusta which came up the Whangpoo Whang-poo to protect departing American refugees. |
