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Show FOREIGN PARTY RAIDEDIH CHINA NANKING, Oct It (UP)-Alr-planea mada a machine gun attack today on an automobile carrying Captain Franceaoo R.beixt of the Italian navy, accompanied by on German, on Russian and on Chinese. Chi-nese. Th party wu 10 miles west of Poochow, en rout from Shanghai - to Nanking. All fled into th fields and escaped uninjured. The ear was riddled. Chinese sources aaserted th attackers at-tackers were Japanese. SHANGHAI. Oct. It Iffi-Jspa-BfRe bombardment of western Shanghai areas last Thuradsy brought diplomatic repercussions todsy when the Germsn consul general gen-eral protested against destruction of 5ermsn owned residences In the Hungjao area. The consul general was understood under-stood to have protested also against the Chinese practice of leaving railway cars nesr by because they drew the fir of Japanese. SHANGHAI! OcT It (INSi-While (INSi-While fierce fighting raged on far-flung far-flung fronts. Chinese and Japanese forces threw their full weight Into a terrific battle on the Shanghai sector today as Nippon's troops once more launched a "big push" against the city. The fighting in this region centered cen-tered south of th Woosung forts, where th spearhead of the Japanese Japa-nese forces renewed their bid to break through the Chines "Hin-denburg "Hin-denburg line" to Tachang. Chinese officials claimed their defense were holding In the face of headlong Japanese tank assaults, supported by heavy artillery barrages. bar-rages. Meanwhile, heavy fighting, bringing bring-ing serious losses to each side, was 1 reported in North China, while to the south a sudden renewal of aerial and naval activity was reported In the vicinity of Canton. Shanghai! Oct it upi China's leaders will demand at the Brussels fsr eastern conference that they be given material aid with which to sweep the Japanese from all China, it was asserted today to-day in well Informed Chines quarters. quar-ters. It was said that the government Is preparing a program of the strongest sort for the conference, as part of which it will reject summarily sum-marily any effort to end th war by mediation and leave Japan in Its former position of dominance In the north. This decision. Informants said. Was due to the success of the Chinese Chi-nese army a success astonishing even to th Chinese themselves of resisting the full might of Japan's war machine. |