CHINESE GAINS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 184, 21 August 1937, Page 5

CHINESE GAINS

-Preaa Aesociation.

. Jspaneie Gunt Rendered Ineffective COUP-DE-GRACE?

By Telegraph-

WfiiUBliNWTON, Tiiis Day. ''The Chinese made further gains at Shanghai, where Japanpse forpes liad been driven intp the Internatipnal Settlement. North of Soochow CreBk tho Japanpse lines are now pressed intp a lohg arc shape; therefere, both ilanks ara vulnerable. Thus pomprgsged the Jupaupso guns have been rendered inr effiective, and fightipg is now mpstiy hand-to-hand. "The Chinese advanced yesterday and occupied the ghn Sing cotton mills. The Japanese attempted to again land &t Pootung, but wero repulsed. Heavy Japanese reinforcemnts have arrived in North China, and a plash is reported at Taku. "Chinese troops at Shanghai occupied ground near the Japanese bur- # racks. Under heavy Chinese artillery fire the Japanese appeared to gradual!y fall bsck pa aew positiPJis hatriedly erected. Chinese troopa occupied wayside wharves last night, thus cutting the communications between the Japanese forces at yaagtse-ppo and north of the Szechuen ropd areas. Having pijtered the north-eastern spctor of the Ijiternational Settlement, the base of the Japanese ppeyations, the Chinese troops are conddent tlipy yrbl soon deliver a eoup-de-grace. The Japanegp made twp desperate pttpiapts |p ' land ?exnforgemeats at Liulio ancj Kiangwan, |jjit were repulsed. ; Twenty Chinese planes bombed Japapesp warphjps ofE Wpoaimg, setting fire tp two gunboats and a submarine. "At present 46 Japanese warships are concentrated at Shanghai, inpluding five cruisers, 25 destroyers, two aircraft carriers, and a Ked Cross uint, "Naa^iapg, hilomptres from Shanghai, was bombed yesterday, and one dotcor and two convalescents were Beriously injjured. The Japanese are Tushing thrce army divisipns to ghangf hai| but landing" is difiicult ija viyw o.

the loss of wayside wharves. Japanese planea made two raids on Nanking, dropping ten bombs, but only two exploded, doipg praetically no damage. Four bombers were shot dpwn, Japanese reconnaisance flights over Yochow, in northern Hunan, indicate that aerial warfare is likely tq bo extended to qenftral China,"