River Traffic

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 183, 20 August 1937, Page 5

River Traffic

lVPress Assn.

STOPPAGE REFUSED Clunese Attcmpt to Isolate Japanese SEPARATION OF FORCES

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(Iteceivqd 2Q, 1040 a.m.) SHANGHAI, A ug. 19. J§pao?se marmes forcibly detajned and disarraed members of the Shanghai Voluixteer Corps jn vlolation of the internatiqjial •greement. The Shanghai consnlar body instantly rejected the Japanese proposal to restrict river tralfic. It is feared that the matter may lead to an international incident. The Chinese are driviixg a wedge in -the middle of the Japanese defending the waterjfropt beyond Sooehow creelc and are snrrounding the gaol, housing « 8000 CQnvipts and, 60 British worders, in the eastern part of the Setfcleinent in the process, If the Chinese leach the' waterfronfc the greater part of tlie Japanese ■will be isolated and in a dan-

gerous ppsition, The Japanese defences in Twgtse'poo alsQ were pushed bach slightly. Earlier reports stated that a .new Japanese offensive was heralded by a terrifio bqmbardment of Chapei from wrMeb flwaea wero rising in all directtons. Later additional troopa wero landed . It was claimed the Chinese had been rapulsed over a wide front. In addition to the warehouses Japan •eined the Eastern. Wharf, belonging

0 to the CKaa Mer chants' Steam Navigation Company, the' largest and oldest Chinese shipping concern, which is *t prenent Government centrolled. Japan claims as compensation £6,000,000 for the sinking of vesseis in the Whangpoo river and accuses the Soviet of allowing lantern signalling from its consulate to'the Chinese, as•isfcing artillery fire. A Japanese senplane raided Nanking and blew np an ammunjtian dump. The Chinese elainy to have bronght down jsight Japanese planes in various raids.