REAL TEST FOR CHINA
— Press Association—
Japanese Prepare Attack on the Second Defence Line IMMENSE FIRES RAGING AT KAINGWAN
(By Telegraph-
-Copyright)
(Received 15, 8.45 a,m.) SHANGHAI, Sept. 14. In prpparation for what is believed will be the first real test of China's resistance, the Japanese are consolidating 100 square Hilles of territory evacuated by the Chinese. Japanese aeroplanes report that the Chinese retreat to tlieir second line was orderly, and of a genuinely strategic nature. The new line runs almost direct from the North Station to lotien, occupying semi-permanent defences and affording improved communication beyond the range of fire from Japanese / warships. The Japanese claim to be within two miles north of the vital Shanghai-N anking railway, Immense fires are raging at Kaingwan, where the Japanese are carrying out a fierce barrage in the hope of trapping the Chinese who are retreating from that point. Chinese bombing planes claim to have §unk a Japanese destroyer in Kwangchow Bay, and to have damaged two Japanese warships at Tientsin. The Japanese are battering the walled city of Tsangchow They are overcoming the transport difficulties of the eountry■ide, whieh is a quagmjre, by using fast mptor launches on the c&nals.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBHETR19370915.2.36
Bibliographic details
Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 205, 15 September 1937, Page 5
Word Count
198REAL TEST FOR CHINA Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 205, 15 September 1937, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in