CURTAIN RAISER

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 194, 2 September 1937, Page 5

CURTAIN RAISER

-Presa Assn.-

Japanese Drive BIG ATTACK COMING Chinese Fail to Regain the Woosung Forts ANGER AT H0NGK0NG

'By Teleeraph-

-Copyrmht.I

(Beceived 2, 2.15 p.m.) SHANGHAI, Sept. 3. After the severe iighting to-day, Avliich the Japanese describe is only a curtain-raisgr, another big Japanese drive is expected to-morrow moruing, Barricades in the International Sfettle. ment have been strengthened, Th Chinese failed tq-day to Tegain the Woosung forts but fought heroicab ly. It is reported that they have had 1300 killed in two days. The Japanese admit 100 were killed to-day. Simultaneously, the Japanese attacked the Chinese northward of the For^ eign Settlement with a view to turning the flank and isqlating the Chinese Iighting at Woosung, but the position is unohanged. The Chinesq deny that the Japanese have captured Paoshan. Another Japanese detachment landed to-day and oceupied positions on the boundary of the Foreign Settlement. China has launehed a Liberty Lqan of £3O,00O.OOO at 4 per cent., redeemable in 30 years from 1941. Eight thoqsand Chinese have sailed from Saigon for Hongkong to enlist in the Chinese Arniy. The Japanese air-raids at Canton have embittered Chinese at Hongkong, resulting in hostile crowds gatheriug before Japanese shops. The Governmer.t is concentrating 1300 Japanese for protection. Two hundred women and children are leaving for Japan tomorrow. Manchurian soldiers at Mukden are repoyted to have mutinied against their Japanese officers, many of whom wero killed. Anotker regiment at Chankpai is reported to havo duserted. Tokio repoi'ts that the Fmperor, wsw "ng the Shinto robes of his high pt rcstly office, worshipped at three ■sanctuaries in the Imperial Palace and prayed for tlie victory of the army. The American ship President Hoover, which was bombed by Chinese planes near Shapghai. has arrived at Kobe. Her shuttered appearance caused great excitoment. The purser said that one of the six bombs dropped struck one Jr tha funnels, whieh crumpled up. The Daily Telegraph's Tokio eorrespondent says it is stated that the Covernment is not.in a position to reply to tlie Britisli note concerning the wounding by a- Japanese plane of tlje Britisli Ambassador to China, Sir Huglie Khatclibull-Hugessen, for several more days. The Military authorities report tliat 50,000 troops liave now landed at Shanghai, compared with at least 100,000 Chinese.