FIERCEST YET

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 201, 10 September 1937, Page 5

FIERCEST YET

— I'reas Assn.

Japan's Onslaught INTENSIVE BOMBING Shipping Paralysed ; Railways Next Objecfcive SHANGHAI CAMPAIGN

'By Telcfrraph-

— Copyright I

(Rcceivcd 10, 10.50 a.m.) SHANGHAI, Sept. 9. Tlie Japauese attack to-day is described as tlie iiercest of the campaign. The Chinese counterattackcd but failed to recover their losses. Japaneso are bombing the encmy from the air over a wide area. The Japanese have proclaimed the triangle from Shanghai to Hankow to Nanking a danger zone for bombing, declaring that the only safe transit is by sea, which they control. * Two hours' fighting in the dusk east of Yangtsepoo ended in tlie repulso of the Ghineso. Tho'contestants appear lo bo holding tho maia original positions. Tho Japanese have intensified their operations from an aerodrome they have eistablished near the university, and are paying special attention to the civic cenfre and tlie arsenal at Kiangnan. Ilaving paralysed Chinese shipping, including the banning of night traffic on the Canton River, the Japanese are expected next to assail the main north and south railway links. A Japanese destroyed stopped the British steamer Fooshung off Amoy, examined the vessel's papers, and then apologised. Later. — Chinese aeroplanes, diving down on the Japanese warships in an effort to blow them up shortly after midnight, local time, dropped bonil1*' which set fire to tho America-Chii. ) Lumber Co.'s yards. Members of tlu. foreign "suicide squad" fire brigade immediately responded by fighting the blaze, but the yards were burned out. The damage totals half a million dollars. The Japanese are still unable to ad- ; vance northward despite continuous altempts, while they were driven back from Jukong wharf, which they had hitherto held for a week, until naval guns forced the pursuing Ghineso to sheltcr behind the embankment. A Honglcong message reports that the Japanese again bombod Swatow, killing many Chinese. The British codsuI there is appealing for help. The British destroyer Thracian is going to Swatow. The Domei News Agency reports that 100 Russian motor-lorries laden J with aeroplanes arrived at Siaafu, wliere a dozen Soviet aviators will arrive to train Chinese airmeu,