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Show Japan Guns Imperil Outposts-ofBritish Nippon Bombers Attack New Positions of Chinese West of Shanghai " SHANGHAI, Nov. 4 (AP) Japanese forces trying to drive Chinese south of their Soochow creek positions today bombarded I the Jessfield park area near British army outposts. -J As Shanghai skies started to clear, Japanese planes took the air to drop a number of small bombs on the right flank of the Chinese line extending ex-tending westward from Shanghai. The Japanese drive suffered a setback, set-back, a Chinese spokesman declared, when Chinese artillery destroyed two of three Bridges Japanese engineers en-gineers had thrown over Soochow creek. He added, however, that severe se-vere fighting was in progress on the south bank beyond Rubicon village. There were persistent reports that Chinese were on the verge of with drawing from the entire Shanghai peninsula, but the reports were without confirmation. American and foreign observers said the first Japanese objective apparently was the Hungjao airdrome air-drome three miles southwest of Rubicon. They stated the Japanese were making only slow progress. Spirited fighting was under way on all fronts in China, but neither Chinese nor Japanese were able to achieve clear-cut gains toward mi- (Continued on Pic Two) (Column Four) JAPANESE GUNS PERIL BRITONS 1 (Continued from Psf One) jor objectives. From first-hand observation ob-servation and from communiques of ths two factions It appeared that a temporary stalemate bad developed. devel-oped. On the Shanghai front, artillery and infantry fighting continued along the entire line from Jessfield park west and north to Nansiang. Japanese mads small gsins at heavy sacrifices, but were unsbls to consolidate con-solidate their advances on the south bank of Soochow creek. v Battle Tide Shlfta In north China the tide of battle shifted back and forth along the Peiplng Hankow railway, with Chinese Chi-nese declaring their forces had launched an offensivs which carried car-ried them northward across the Chang river, IT miles north of Changteh, in northern Honan province. Japanese at Peiping declared the Chinese attack was repulsed. Japanese asserted they hnd captured cap-tured Niangtsekwan pass, the gateway gate-way to ths Shansi provincial capital. cap-ital. Talyuan. Chinese, however, declared that only a small Japanese Japa-nese lores hsd penetrated the pass and added that Chinese along both sides held back ths main Japanese column. Along the Tientsln-Pukow railway, rail-way, Chinese asserted a counterof-fensivs counterof-fensivs was pushing Jspsnese bsck to a tins 02 miles north of Tslnsn, Shantung province capital. At Peiping, a Japanese communique communi-que said 13 divisions of Chinese troops wore In flight as Japanese advanced toward Taiyuan. Japa- nese were saia 10 nav. mum Hslnhslen, a walled city 40 milea north of the capital. Two divisions of red army troops were reported retreating in northeast Shansi. The Japanese eastern column was reported re-ported within 40 miles of Taiyuan. Despite deadlocked land battles. Japanese continued widespread aerial activities. A scouting plane flew over Tslngtao, Shantung province prov-ince seaport, which previously had been untouched by warfare. Twenty bombs were dropped at Sungklang, southwest of Shanghai, Shang-hai, with a heavy toll of lives and damage to a . power plant and a girls' school. Three points along the Canton-Kowloon railway were raided. Fourteen Japanese planes bombed Soochow, 50 miles west of Shanghai. A Japanese spokesmen announced that negotiations for proposed neutralisation neu-tralisation of Nantao. Chinese section sec-tion south of ths French concession, conces-sion, were proceeding satisfactorily. |