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Show 1 KILLED, 10 VMIDED BY STRAY PROJECTILE; FOURTH jF CITY AFIRE American Men-of-War Aid in Evacuation; Shore Batteries Naval Guns and Planes Lock in Battle By JAMES A. MILLS SHANGHAI, August 20 (AP) An American tailor " killed tonight and 18 were wounded when the cruiser Augusta, flagship of the United States Asiatic fleet, was struck by an antiaircraft shell in the midst of terrific Chinese-Japanese artillery ar-tillery and aerial warfare along the Whangpoo river. Flree crackled la a fourth of all Rhanghai at the Urn. The one-Inch projectile of undetermined un-determined origin plunged from a hlfh angle onto Um cruiser's after well deck. Tho uilor killed was Freddie John 'Falgout of Raceland, La. None of. the wounded was badly hurt. The American flagship, which hai been lying in the Whangpoo a little below the heart of Shanghai to cover evacuation of some 9000 American Amer-ican refugees, was struck at :0 p. m, while most of the officers and crew were at men. Otherwiee War at a Glance SHANGHAI One United States States sailor killed and 1 wounded wound-ed when aa antlalroraft shell hits the cruiser Augusta. One-fourth of , Shanghai la flames as Chinese planes and artillery ar-tillery strike at Japanese) properties proper-ties and dafensa lines, United States warships aid vacuatloa of MM Americans through a curtain of shrapnel. TOKIO Premier Prlnoe Fuml-mara Fuml-mara Konoye bars foreign Intervention Inter-vention In Sine-Japanese warfare, declaring a settlement must wait until Japan has "chastised" the Chinese army, PEIPINO Chinese armies, lno.SOO to 15M0 strong, report- edly launch a general offensive to drive conquering Japanese out of North China. casualties probably would havs been greater. Shanghai la Flames One-fourth of Shanghai was burning, ths result of slvags Chinese Chi-nese air bombings of Japanese properties in Pootung and ths Hong-kew Hong-kew district and Chinese land batteries bat-teries blasting at Japanese defense lines In the eastern district American-owned buildings were believed engulfed in the flames, which spread over wide areas unchecked. un-checked. The artillery duel between Japanese Japa-nese warships on ths river and Chinese Chi-nese shore batteries wss the fiercest fierc-est of the eight-day-old bsttle for Shanghai. The International settlement settle-ment rocked to the detonations. Three shells, believed to be from Chinese batteries in northern Shanghai, hsd fsllen nesr the Augusta shortly before she was hit Another fell less thin 100 yards astern shortly after. Ordered Below Decks Her crew of M0 was ordered to remain below decks as much as possible. Similar precautions were taken by the United States destroyers destroy-ers Ediall and Parrott and other foreign naval ships off ShsnghsL Some prepared to move to ssfer anchorages. The Augusta. 0S0-ton, 110 000000 flagship of Admiral Harry E. Yar-nell, Yar-nell, commander In chief of the Asiatic fleet, had stood by earlier (Continn on P F1v) 'Column riv.l SHELL STRIKES U, S. WARSHIP (Continued from Pare Ont today as the Parrott and Edsall and Dollar line tenders carried 1100 United States refugees down the Wbangpoo to tha Dollar liner President Presi-dent Hoover, bound for Manila. Admiral Tarnell had told the Japanese navy concisely that American Amer-ican vessels would navigate the Wbangpoo whenever and however he wished without reference to the Japaneae, who had asked him to give advance notice if any United States craft were to move on the river after dark. At 10:30 p. m. (:30 a. m.. E. S. T.) the Shanghai international sone wss rocked as if in an earthquake by the savage artillery duel over the Whangpoo. Chineae batteries well to the south of the settlement were exchanging shells with Japanese warships on the river and projectiles projec-tiles screamed over the foreign-held parts of the city. The fires which raged Into the night over a fourth of the city's area had mostly been started In late afternoon when Chinese air bombers bomb-ers and artillery struck savagely at Japaneae properties on both sides of the Whangpoo river. The sailor casualty was the fourth American to be killed in the eight days of war in Shanghai. Three United States citizens died last Saturday Sat-urday when misplaced Chineae air bombs wrecked buildings in the International In-ternational area and killed more ' than 1000 persons. 1 American property suffered heavily as the battle for Shanghai, in its second week became increasingly increas-ingly destructive of life and wealth. The whole Pootung waterfront, teeming industrial area just across the river from the heart of Shanghai, Shang-hai, was in flames, the result of heavy bombing of Japanese properties proper-ties by Chinese planes. A large section of the Hongkew district to the north was burning furiously. This section, now largely Japaneae, was the American concession con-cession for a few years in ths nineteenth nine-teenth century. Heavy shelling by UTAHN FLEES SHANGHAI Rowena Barlow of the Ogdrn hotel, Ogdrn, was among M American nationals who arrived at Kobe, Japan, after having been evacuated from Hhanghal last Monday, an Associated Preas dispatch dis-patch from Washington, D. C, said Friday. The state- department announced an-nounced the arrivals. Chinese big guns, searching out the shore positions of the Japaneae marines, was largely responsible for the Hongkew blase. Among the buildings reported destroyed de-stroyed in Hongkew was a paint factory belonging to the American Sherwin-Williams company. The fires spread with no effort to check them, fdr the fire companies of the international settlement had all been withdrawn from the battle-sons, battle-sons, which most of Hongkew has become. Fires seemed to ring the whole horiion, as seen from tall buildings on Shanghai's famous bund. The war came closer to Americans Amer-icans . In Shanghai as Japanese shells fell on the border of the French concession where most American residents hava t h s i r homes. Chinese forces, attempting to drive the Japanese Into the Whangpoo Whang-poo river, apparently held ths Japanese Japa-nese along the river's banks in northeastern Shanghai. Chinese artillery repulsed a Japanese effort to land a flanking detachment at Liuho, 12 miles northwest of Shanghai. Shang-hai. Independent reports from the battle area said Chinese hsd not yielded an inch of their gains, and that the Chinese attack bad split the Jspanese lines. Chinese Mobs grew Increasingly threatening in Shanghai. French soldiers mounted machine guns sbout ths Japaneae ambassador's residence in the French concession. |
