ATTACK HALTED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 11, 6 October 1937, Page 5

ATTACK HALTED

Press Assn -

Japanese Repulsed SHANGHAI FIGHTING Invaders Withdraw Lines at Chapei CHINESE DEFENCE HOLDS

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(Received 6, 10.40 a.m.) The Chinese for the third timo uppear to have halted the Japanose. The Chineso spokesman states that the lines in the Lotien seetor are un•hanged dospite heavy fightiug during the night, and that Japanese attacks ea the Liuhang-Kuangwan sectors have bees, repulsed. It is believed that the .Japanese are mow withdrawing their lines in the Chapei sector after bitter fighting. Chinese batteries shelled the enexny lines heavily this morning, and the gunners scored a direct hit on cho Japanese navol landing head-quarters. They also shot down a bomber near Tazang. Japanese warships bombarded Pootung for an hour) raking an area from the waterfornt to half a mile inland. The fact had emerged earlier from the dih of combat that the Chinese were still holding on, though Japanese infantry, machnie-guns and tanks maintained their furious efforts to penetrate towards the North Station from Chapei. The Japanese assaults north of the Xiotien-Liuhang road and west across the Woosung jreek towards the Liu-hang-Shanghai road also failed. A Nanking message says that Chinese reports indicate that the Japanese havo not obtained entire possession of Tehchow . . The Chinese troops in the Tsiupu rail* way sector expelled the Japanese from Sangyuan and captured 35 guns and military supplies. They also recaptured Hsuangchen, Potow and Pengchiwlow and are advancing in the north. The Daily Mail's Tokio correspondent reports that the Government's policy now is to end hostilities in China at the •arliest possible moment at all costs. Foreign experts estimate that Japau kas nearly 1,000,000 men under arms, •r four times her peacetime army etrength. Of this total 700,000 are in China, which is sufficient indication of how eeriously the campaign is being taken.