150,000 JAPANESE AT SHANGHAI

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 212, 23 September 1937, Page 5

150,000 JAPANESE AT SHANGHAI

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Chinese Confident Their Lines Will Hold RAIDS ON NANKING

(By TVlegrapJi

WELLINGTON, This Day. The Chinese Consul has received the following cablegram from Nanking: — "In replying to a joint communication from foreign representatives at Shanghai, the Mayor of Shanghai roiterated that strict orders had bcen issued to the Chinese military and air forces to avoid whenever possible such action as might cause danger to noncombatants in the International Settlocnent and French Concession. "Soochow Station has been reduced to a shambles as the result of a Japanese air-raid. Twenty bombs wero dropped, killing and wounding a large number of refugees awaiting trains to leave the city. "According to an official cominunique, soven of the Japanese planes which participated in the air-raid on Nanking on Tuesday were shot down. Fiftoen civilians were killed and 16 injurcd. Fifty housos wero wrecked, "Intorviewed by the Central News, the Chinese military commander expressed conlidence that the Chinese torces wero capable of holding the new Chinese defence line at Shanghai for a prolonged fight. "Lotien is still in Chinese. hands. Liuho is cleared of the enemy, while the Chinese positions at Kiangwan and Chapei are intact. "The Chinese commander also revealed that the defences at Pootung were strong enough to resist Japanese landing opdrations. "At present there are 150,000 Japanese troops at Shanghai."