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Show JAPANESE BOMB CHINESE CITIES BHANCHAI, Oct (INS)-In snother grim reply to President Roosevelt's arraignment of war makers, IS Japanese planes bombed Nanking today in a new attack on China's capital. Others raided the Canton area. Nine of the planes broke through the capital's antiaircraft defenses and showertd their missiles upon Nanking. One Japaneas craft was ahot down.. At the sema time, eight other planes attacked ths Nanking suburb sub-urb of Wuhu and ons of these, alio, was shot to esrth. At Chefoo. "hsntung provlno port southeast of Tientsin, American Amer-ican naval authorities vigorously protested sgalnsl threats to blow up the mole there, as a precaution against possible Isnding of Jsp-sness Jsp-sness troops there. To prevent pos-silbs pos-silbs damsge should the mole be blasted by Chinese authorities, five American warships st Chefoo moved to ths outer hsrbor. Meanwhile, the crash and roar of battle resounded through the Chapel district of Shanghai as ths Chinese launched a desperate counter-attack near the north Siechuan road. Japanese tsnks, blocking the streets, rushed up to meet this new Chlness threat. Ths counter-sttacks followed the heaviest bombardments the Chinese bsvs endured since hostilities began be-gan hers. Ths Chlness swsrmcd out of their trenches, brandishing swords and bayoneta and hurling hand grenades to lock with their Jspaness foes In a death-dealing atruggle at close quarters. As the bsttle continued without mercy, the toll of lives mounted high. Late this afternoon the Japanese operstlons In Shsngh-J slsckened as a heavy drltzls turned the battlefields battle-fields to virtual mud ponds. The Jspaness took advantage of the opportunity op-portunity to clean out their trenches, repslr wrecked bridges snd strengthen their communics-tions. communics-tions. To ths north, however, ths Chinese Chi-nese forces fared less well. Jspaness Jsp-aness commanders at Pelping reported re-ported capture of Chunnsien in fihansl provinrs after a bloodthirsty blood-thirsty bsttle In which 10.000 former Chinese communist troops wers put to rout. Jspaness claimed their bombing planes had destroyed Chiness military mili-tary headquarters at Taiyuan in fihanel province. Japanese admitted that guerrilla bands of Chinese Irregulars hsd svaded a trap laid for them in the Pelping area. |