SHANGHAI—STORM CENTRE OF THE SINO-JAPANESE WAR: A PLAN OF THE CITY SHOWING AREAS THROUGHOUT WHICH THE PRESENT FIERCE CONFLICT IS RAGING. War clouds which gathered following a series of Sino-Japanese military hostilities in North China grew -blacker and more menacing as Japanese Warships assembled near Shanghai early this month. On August 14 the clouds burst when the bombarding of the Woosung forts by the warships precipitated open warfare between Chinese and Japanese forces in Shanghai, which has become an area of fierce and bitter fighting. The plan reproduced here illustrates the general lay-out of the city, showing the positions of the International Settlement, Whangpoo River, the Bund, Chapei and other. areas and buildings prominent in the daily news of the conflict.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 190, 28 August 1937, Page 6
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121SHANGHAI—STORM CENTRE OF THE SINO-JAPANESE WAR: A PLAN OF THE CITY SHOWING AREAS THROUGHOUT WHICH THE PRESENT FIERCE CONFLICT IS RAGING. War clouds which gathered following a series of Sino-Japanese military hostilities in North China grew -blacker and more menacing as Japanese Warships assembled near Shanghai early this month. On August 14 the clouds burst when the bombarding of the Woosung forts by the warships precipitated open warfare between Chinese and Japanese forces in Shanghai, which has become an area of fierce and bitter fighting. The plan reproduced here illustrates the general lay-out of the city, showing the positions of the International Settlement, Whangpoo River, the Bund, Chapei and other. areas and buildings prominent in the daily news of the conflict. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 190, 28 August 1937, Page 6
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