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Show ENGLISH TROOPS HOLD POSITIONS, MUTTERING RETALIATION THREATS Nipponese Bombard Shanghai In Grim Effort to Dislodge Dare-to-Die . Chinese From Warehouse SHANGHAI, Oct 21 (UP) Japanese shrapnel rained ever British and American residential sections of Shanghai tonight on the western boundary of the International Settlement, where a shell wiped out a British outpost, killing two and wounding three of the detachment of six. Another British soldier was killed elsewhere in the outskirts of the settlement Foreign re were at the breaking point as aha Japanese, disregarding protests, ileum d shelling the Chinese wietsrn (rent adjacent to the settlement and dropped men than It beraaa a the northern suburb ef In-klang, In-klang, destroying the American Southern Methodist eknrek school. . 1 Ulster riflemen muttered threats as they manned the western barricades barri-cades aftsr a day ef international Incidents, Including the killing ef three British soldiers! invasion of -the British dsfensc area in Boe-chow Boe-chow creek by Japanese boats: and destruction of the Ameriean-ewnod Susan B. Wilson school at funf , .... klang. , Trouble Foreseen The tense situation brought pre dictions from a high foreign naval official that "things are going to happen fast Comrades of the slain Ulster riflemen echoed him by hop lng "to get a chance to reply in kind. The Japanese naval launches that came up Soochow creek sought a point from which to shell the warehouse ware-house In which ISO meaibera of a Chinese "suicide squadron" commanded com-manded the admiration of China by their determination to die rather than surrender. As the Japanese cam af) the creak to a point of vantage which they could not gain on the Chapel side, British royal Welch fusiliers Intervened and blocked the water way with sampans. The British pro- ' tested the Invasion and the Jape- . nese protested boarding af the launches by British troops. SheO. Strikes Outpost Unable to dislodge a- "suicide squadron of 160 Chinese barricaded in Chapel, and harassed by Chinese sniping posts on the new western front, ths Japanese opened np with artillery and one shell made a direct hit on a British outpost on the Jess-field Jess-field road, along Soochow creek. When ambulances from the settlement set-tlement arrived they found the post demolished. Previously, a royal Ulster rifleman rifle-man had been killed in the western suburbs, after which the British ( royal Wslch fusiliers turned back two armed Japanese boats la Sod-chow Sod-chow creek on the banks of which ' the "suicide squadron" is barrtcad-' barrtcad-' sd In two warehouses. Japanese Ordered Out Entrance of the Japanese navy motor boats Into the creek thoroughly thor-oughly aroused British commanders, who ordered the Japanese to get out of their defense sector. The Japanese Japa-nese compiled. British soldiers said the Japanese hsd Informed British military commanders com-manders that thsy would resume the artillery barrage which la endangering endanger-ing foreigners along the western boundary of the settlement and the French concession. The warning was given, It was understood, desplts a British protest pro-test against the Jess fie Id road killing. kill-ing. Brigadier Telfer-Smollett, British commander, Immediately started on a tour of the British defense sector. British soldiers said thus far 15 Japanese shells had fallen in the Jessfield area. Refugees Refu-gees were panic-stricken. Reinforcements Sent A new detachment of Ulsterraen was sent to man the Jessfield outpost. out-post. Observera speculated on the outcome of the routine transfer of UUtermen to the British defense sector adjoining the North Station, where they will face the Japanese for the first time since the death of their comrades. It appeared that the Chines doomed battalion," IM atreevg, barricaded In Chapel, wonld re- ' main there until exteimusated by Japanese dewplta foreign appeals for them to eava lltemaelvoa. Lieutensnt General Sua Yuan- (Continues mi Pas Twee ' tColume un k NIPPON SHELL ILLSJRITONS (Ooallnoea from Pace On) Liang, commander of the Mth division, divi-sion, sent a meesage urging them to "ahed your last drop of blood, fulfilling your sacred duty, defending defend-ing national territory for the glory ef tha Chineaa." Tha Japaneae. however, announced that for tha ttma being at least they war atopplng their attack on tha warahouaaa and It was not clear how tha situation finally would be resolved. Orders Attark Hah4 A Japan see army apokeaman said that or da re would be laaued to commanding com-manding officers on the apot to halt their attack. Officially, tha Japanese explained that the Chinese were ao atrongly fortified and ao tenacious that Ui attark them would endanger the defense unee of tha Unitad States marines and British Royal Welch fusilier across th rreek from the two warahouaea In which tha Chineaa Chi-neaa had held out for two days, sworn to die rather than surrsnder. But privately tha Japaiuaa mr frank In their admiration of the China asMie- roaraga emirs which had fired th pride f all China. They' had attacked th defender time after tun, aending email detachments de-tachments creeping up, to be beaten back by hand grenadea and machine gun bullets. Th unly thing left was a big scale attack, In which the Chines would be blasted out by field artillery, and th Japanese decided not to make it British Block Creek Before th attark ended th British Brit-ish Royal Walsh fuslliars bad blockaded block-aded Soochow creek againat two Japanese navy motor boala that sought to attack th fortreaa-ware-houa from th water, coincident with a land attack. Tharaaghly angeired, the British Brit-ish evre4 th Japan bark bate th Whangpew river and this ang was mnreaaed tonight whan n atoyal I WW rirkwnaa waa killed by a stray bullet In th British Vfenea Una hi th wee tern suburbs. Mora and mora, th danger ef thia war waa being brought Into th International ana. Three shells, which polio believed to b Jape-e, Jape-e, struck In th french eoncee-aion eoncee-aion tonight On shell struck a acheoL Thar war no casualties. Oilnsee Stand Finn Infantry squads and volunteer dynamiters had tried to tak th fortress ef the doomed battalion In fore and by stratagem before th "naval" attack. Ail sfforta had failed. A three-Inch field gun had tn brought to bear en th warehouse ware-house at short rang too short. It proved, to be effective. Than aa th final reeort th Japaneae Japa-neae brought In their little "navy." And the navy mat not only a blockade block-ade by Chin watermen, acting a inexrwetlone and with th guid-anoe guid-anoe ef the British, but It met also stern order by the Walsh fuslllsrs to go back. What threatened to be an ugly International Incident ended for th moment at least whan the Japaneae obeyed a British officer's . warning to return down th craek. Plane Level Town dilnea report today aald that ftunkianc, a suburb northwest of Shanghai, was practically leveled, and streets were littered with dead aftar a Japanese air raid which da- roved th property ot the Southern South-ern Methodist church. Twenty airplane dropped mors than 100 bombs on th town, reducing re-ducing th residential section to ruin, setting fir to th Susan a Wllaon school of th Southern Methodist Meth-odist church, and demolishing th home of Rev. W. a Burke. Th minister now is la the United States. Reports aald (0 persona who took "Iter In a dugout en church property prop-erty were not injured. After bomb- Ins; the city, the Japanese planes swooped down and turned machine guns on crowds fleeing through the atreeta. Larries Blown I'p A Japaneae spokesman confirmed th air raid, saying that Japanese planes had blown up 15 Chinese motor mo-tor lorries, loaded with munitions, at Sunkiang. A second raid was reported late In the afternoon, but no details were learned. SHANGHAI. Oct. M (UP) Madam Ma-dam Chiang Kal-ehek, wife of China's "strong man" and Chinas minister of aviation, ha been oon-flned oon-flned to a hospital with a fractured rib, th national military council announced today. 8h waa Injured In an automobile accident Saturday while en route to 8hanghal from Nanking to inspect in-spect the Chines fronts. |