Air-Raids Renewed in China

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 12, 7 October 1937, Page 5

Air-Raids Renewed in China

-Press Assn.-

CITIES AND VILLAGES

Defenders Counter-Attack at Shanghai MORE SEVERE FIGHTING

(By Telesraph-

-Copyright.)

(Beceived 7, 1.25 p.m.) SHANGHAI, Oct. 6. Sixty-six Japanese planes bombed Cities, towns and scores of villages in the Sbantung provinee. Thirty-three aircraft carried out a four-hours raid on the Canton-IIankow railway, the longest since hostilities began in South China. The frequency of raids on this railway caused a British request to be made to the Chinese and Japanese for the safe passage of the majority of the officers and 250 of the crew of the cruiser Capetown, who were travelling by special train to Canton en route for home, as the cruiser was marooned in the Yangtse river by the boom installed by the Chinese at the Kiangyin forts. The Capetown remains under the cont/ol of the captain, who has a skeleton crew sufficient for navigation when the Yangtse is reopened. The Chinese frustrated the Japanese intention to remain quiet all day by counter-attacking on all sectors of the Shanghai front. Their assaults produoed severe fighting. The Japanese again crossed the Woosung creek. The Chinese repulsed an attack by Japanese marines which was led by six tanks in Chapei, killing 100. I The Japanese bombed a village which, they alleged, was harbduring troops, killing 30 and wonding 100 non-combat-ants. A Peiping message says: An indication pf the Japanese problems is contained in the announcement that 16 Chinese have been executed for cutting military telephone wires in North China, The Japanese, aft6r the capture of Chungsien, are pursuing 10,000 Chinese across the plain towards Taiyuan. A London message says: The Times Hongkong correspondent says that foreigners in Canton have organised a ' ' Committee for Justice Toward China' ' and have issued pamphlets urging action by England and America for an economic boycott of Japan, aid towards China, an immediate meeting of the signatories of the Nine Power Treaty, and contributions for the relief of Chinese sufferers in air-raids. "The war has been going on for a long time, so we are taking a two-days holiday and resting." This statement was made to-day by the Japanese spokesman in explaining the inactivity on the Shanghai front, where things are at a standstill. The Japanese are cleaning up their trenches, repairing bridges across creeks, and strengthening communications — all in a heavy drizzle. Thirty planes, however, continue strafing the Chinese lines. Six planes bombed Nanking to-day. One was brought down in flames' by anti-aircraft flre.