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Show FIERCE ATTACK DRIVES 1 WEDGE INTO INVADERS' co lu r. r isoruvi i as :ep o o Nipponese Meet Desperate Onslaught With" Mass Warship Bombardment of Defenders' Shore Positions SHANGHAI, Sunday, Aug. 22 (UP) Japanese linei on th4 Whangpoo river were severed by desperate Chinese assault tor 'Uie Iirsi time eariy wunjr. Nipponese etrateglats respondool Instantly with ooneerted attack at-tack by air, water and landL Every Japanese warship except a gunboat anchored off the bund and" a destroyer off Hunt's wharf, hastily hast-ily cleared for action and steamed down the Whangpoo, guna biasing against Chinese shore forces. Their shelling waa concentrated on the Wayside wharf of the Chinese Chi-nese Merchants Navigation corporation, corpo-ration, which earlier had been held by the Japanese. Another violent fusillade was being be-ing directed at the Yanrtxepoo creek Junction with the Whang. poo, apparently against Chinese foroes which had penetrated la that point. The liver biased with probing searchlights. Almost split second before tha naval offensive, Japanese aircraft had taken to the air and launched mass bombing in the Hongkew section sec-tion of the city. Ashore, a crescendo of machine gun fire accompanied. . Shortly after 1 a. m. Chinees leaders claimed their forces had widened a wedge between tha Japanese Jap-anese invaders, which Included tha Chaoufoong road to a block wast of the Kungpln road. Arrival of 80 Japanese warships bearing troop reinforcements waa reported to Chinese headquarters. The ships were said to be off Pai Lung harbor, on the Chekiang coast. SHANGHAI, Aug. 21 (A War and firs continued to lay waste In Shanghai today, with foreign police po-lice estimates that about 11 square miles of tha world'a sixth largest port had been destroyed. Firs leveled most of Chinese Chapel, Japanese Hongkew, Yang-txepoo, Yang-txepoo, Industrial Pootung, across tha Whangpoo river, and Kiang-wan. Kiang-wan. Only the International settlement, tha French concession and parts of Nantao in tha Soochow Creek area, remain Intact In tha absence of firemen, who already had evacuated the burning areas, tha flames continued to spread unchecked in all directions. Stifling smoke snd fierce heat were driving many Chinese belligerents from the Hongkew battle arts. . From the United States cruiser (Continued on Pan Two) ICohimo Vourl CHINESE SMASH iAPAHESHJIIES (ContlaiM tnm Page One) Augusta, 110,000.000 flagship of the American fleet, grim-faced bluejackets blue-jackets carried the shell-ripped body of a 21-year-old Louisiana boy, on of th craw and th fourth American to be killed line the hostilities hos-tilities started. Th body was wrapped in the stars and stripes. Th mighty Augusta still lay resolutely res-olutely et anchor on a curve of the Whangpoo near the heart of the International settlement to protect American live while investigators sought to learn ths origin of the one-inch antiaircraft shell that killed the seaman, Freddie John Falgout of Raceland. La. Japanese diplomatic sources declared de-clared Japanese forces were in no way connected with the shelling SWEETS MENTIONED , IN CHINA REPORTS Conflicting report Saturday had either Mr. or Mrs. Harold A. Sweet, former Salt Lakers, as bring among 17 American safely evacuated from Ttsnklng, China. - One press dispatch frna Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, said the state department de-partment listed Mrs. Sweet, another an-other said It waa Mr. Sweet. The couple have beea Using In Manila, P. I, the last two years, wher Mr. Sweet I aa airline official. offi-cial. Salt Lake dry relatives said either or both of them may have been la China. Mr. Sweet I well knowa a a private aviator her. Ho and Mrs. Sweet left several year ag for California, where they resided be-fer be-fer going to th Philippine. of th Augusta, which resulted in the death of Falgout and wounding of It other sailors. Theory Advanced Although American naval officers offi-cers said they believed the shell which landed on the Augusta came from an antiaircraft gun, a Japanese Japa-nese embassy spokesman said Jap-aneeo Jap-aneeo thought the projectile was fired by a Chinese trench mortar. The most seriously Injured sailors sail-ors are Everett Mackenzie, Raymond, Ray-mond, Wash, struck in the right knee, left arm and right leg; Luther F. Guynes, Gatesville, Miss., shrapnel shrap-nel wounds in th left should abdomen ab-domen and hip; Edward J. Elles, Toronto, Can, wounded neck and right shoulder, and William E. Bellman, Bell-man, Miami, Fla, wounded forearm, right thigh, and right and left ! Ths United State consulate said approximately 500 American women residents of Shanghai havs decided to remain despite ths wishes of authorities that thsy leave th city. Whither their evacuation will bo ordered or-dered depsnds upon seriousness of hostilities. Refugee Fie Five hundred twenty-five refugee refu-gee of various nationalities fled to safety on the open sea, boarding the Frsnch liner Armi under a shower of screaming shrapnel The refugees Included 200 French and ITS Portuguese. Shanghai today was In It ninth day of carnage-fraught atrurgl between be-tween th powerful Chinee and Japan armies, with an estimated fourth of greater Shanghai' densely dense-ly populated area aa unchecked holocaust. The damage reached Into tens of millions of dollar. Th leas in Ufa was enormous. Admiral Harry E. Y smell, commander com-mander in chief of the Asiatic fleet, told the Associated Press hs had repeatedly warned both Jap-anas Jap-anas and Chinas against firing ever American and foreign warships. war-ships. "I asked them especially to refrain re-frain from firing over the Augusta," he said. Japan Informed' Admiral Tarnell today officially "Informed" the Japanese naval commandant. com-mandant. Vice Admiral Kiyoehi Haasgawa. and also th Nanking central Chinese government of the Augusta shelling through Nelson T. Johnson, American ambassador to China. No formal protest was contemplated contem-plated until after thorough investigation. investi-gation. American naval spokesmen confirmed that the shell cams from an anttairerift gun. but had not yet decided whether the gun waa Japanese Jap-anese or Chinese. Admiral Tarnell aeld an official naval board of inquiry would determine de-termine origin and identity of the damaging shell, and asserted he had not reprimanded either China or Japan, Indicating he would not do so until th Inquiry is complete. com-plete. One hundred sixty-four American Ameri-can appealed to th United States consulate ts provide mean for their transportation bark to th State Instead of to Manila, where hundreds hun-dreds of refugees already have been take. Jt was thought likely that the liner President Hoover and President Presi-dent McKinley, now en rout to the Philippine port with load of refugees, refu-gees, would return here August 90 to take on passengers and then head for the United States, providing ths Shanghai crisis permits. American Pear la Americans, both local residents and those living in near-by Chinese Chi-nese territory, continued to pour into concentration point for evacuation. evac-uation. American consular official again warned today that any American citizen joining the Chinese air force te fight Japan would bo subject to prosecution for loss of citizenship. It waa pointsd out that no American Amer-ican I permitted to participate in war against a nation with which the United States is at peace. It was reported here that a number of Chinese civil pilots were Joining th Chinese air fore, and that foreign for-eign aviator had bean asked to enlist. So far a known, no American Amer-ican flier yet haa accepted. |
