MINOR SKIRMISHES
-Press Association.)
Chinese Strongly Entrenched at Shanghai WARSHIPS BOMBARD FORTS
(By Telegraph-
WELLINGTON, This Day. The Chinese consul received the following caglegram from Nanking last night:— "With the Japanese engaged in consolidating their new positions and the Chinese forces strongly entrenched along a 50-mile front stretching from the Shanghai north station to Liuho, fighting around Shanghai has been rostricted to minor skirmislies during the last 24 hours. "The Chineso are still holding the Kiangwan racecourse* and adjoining regions, these being the advanced Chinese positions. "Yesterday morning the Japanese warships bombarded the Bocca and Tigris forts on the Canton river. The Chinese shore batteries replied to their fire, damaging two Japanese warships. Chinese planes assisted in the operations aud bombed tho attacking vessels, one of which was sunk."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 207, 17 September 1937, Page 5
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