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Show TOKIO REGRETS I). SJNCIDEIIT Wounding of Marines Brings Apology SHANGHAI, Oct. If (INS) Jep-ans Jep-ans authorities formally apologised apolo-gised to Amerlcaa efflslal today for the "laaesuraoy" ef Nippon see airplane bomber who sent high ex plosive missile crashing Into th United State defense ssotor of ths international aettlemtnt Half a doaan American marine nureed injuries as a result of the Japaaaaa "error" In dropping bomb near marine outposts along Soo-chow Soo-chow ere sic. Ths japanss apology, tsndsrsd to Major General Beaumont Beau-mont aaid two bombs bsd dropped Into th American patrollsd arsa. Msanwhils, Chlnsss infantry forces, baaed la the ruined Chspsl sector, stsged a series of reckless counterattacks against Japanaaa positions aa ths most terrific battla of tha Shanghai war raged through Its second day ef unremitting bombardment. bom-bardment. ToD Runs High Chines military headquarters claimed 30,000 Jspanss have been killed and wounded In th last two wseks In ths Shanghai arsa. Chinss successes, it wss claimed, have seriously smbarraaaad Japanese Japa-nese plana to swsep across Shanghai Shang-hai and on to Nanking for th "ultimate "ulti-mate blow" ef th war. Japaneaa authorities, however, claimed th Chinese have lost 10.000 killsd and 10,000 wounded on the Chine northwestern front In ths last twe or three days. These casualties, said th Japanss, Japa-nss, Included 2600 Chinss troops killed in battles leading up to Japanese Japa-nese occupation of Nekhlu, 12 miles north of Shuntsfu, which Nipponese officisls declared is th only remaining re-maining center now held by ths Chinese Chi-nese In all Hope! province In th north. Japan Advance Japanese troops on ths northeastern northeast-ern front, It was claimed, now are within 40 miles of ths Yellow river. The Chinese counterattacks todsy, supported by aircraft, brought terror ter-ror to ths International settlement Chinese officials clsimsd their air raiders wreaked havoc on ths Japanese Japa-nese airdrome st Ysntsepoo. In sddition to ths - six injured Americsn marinea and Radio Operator Op-erator J. P. McMichael of Conners-vllle, Conners-vllle, Ind., who waa alightly wounded wound-ed by a stray Japanese shell frag-msnt frag-msnt aboard ths United States cruiser Augusta, mors thsn 60 civilians civil-ians In ths International areas war killed. Several hundred Chinese soldiers snd 250 Jspsness troops were slain when the Chinese forcea advanced (Continues on Pnse Two) (Column Two) U. S. Marines Receive Baptism of Fire in China I .'" d V ' N ri le i NEWLY ARRIVED MARINES SEE SHANGHAI'S WORST BOMBARDMENT Top, men of tha Sixth regiment placing machjn gunt in a dugout; lower, private on patrol duty at barricade Wounding of Americans Brings Apology by Tokio tOeatlaiie frees pass One) against Japaaaa positions In th northern sector of th city. Shlpa NU ClUea All Japanese warship In th Whangpoo river hurled shells Into Pootunf and Chapel, whits) Chinese artillery replied. Nanking, China'! eapttal, waa twice bombarded and in North China a Japanes army pushing northwest of Peiplng t drlv a wedge between China and Soviet Russia oaptured Kwaihua and th near-by city of Suiyuaa. But Chinees officials claimed that In northern Shanst provlnc a gigantic gi-gantic Chinese offensive had forced th Japan to retreat. TOKIO, Oct 16 (INS) Th British Brit-ish government protested to Japan today against th attack on three British embassy automobile In China by six Japanese warplana. Th formal protest was bandsd to Japanese Foreign Minister Kokl Hi-rota Hi-rota by British Ambassador Sir Robert Craigio. PtauM Attack Autoa Carrying British official and a party of civilians, th embassy car wr machln gunned by th Japanese Japa-nese planss on Tuesday nsar Ming-hong, Ming-hong, about It mile south of Shanghai. Shang-hai. British authorities aald th car carried Union Jack whldi could be distinguished from thousands of feet In the air. Th Japanese took Issue with this and sought to throw responsibility for ths incident back to the British themselves by asserting assert-ing the automobiles wsrs following a rout which was not specified when the British gavs advanc no-tirs no-tirs of th trip. No on waa Injured In th attack. Today's protest was ths second of this natur delivered by Britain to Japan. Th latter apologlied for wounding British Ambassador Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugesssn, Knatchbull-Hugesssn, but refused to punish the aviator responsible for ths attack. Japanese Explain In connection with Tuesday's attack, at-tack, Japanese authorities oxplalned th Japanese airman thought Chines Chi-nes officials war In th British cars, HONGKONG, Oct. 15 CtXAn official of-ficial Inquiry into reported sinking of Chinsse Junks by Japaneas submarine sub-marine will b begun her Monday, It was announced today. Survlvora of Chines fishing boats continue to arrive with reports of Japanese naval molestation. One fiaherman said Japaneas boarded his boat, cut down ths mast, took his fish and left him adrift. Th investigation presumably will endeavor to ascertain whether any British registered Junks were among those reported sunk. |