Japanese Encircling Move

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 30, 29 October 1937, Page 5

Japanese Encircling Move

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SHANGHAI FIGHTING JYall of Flamc About The Foreign Area

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i (Riceivecl 29, 11.50 a.ra.) / SHANGHAI, Oct. 2$. "With the object of encircling the International Settlement, the Japanese ara driving epearheads across tho « fihanghai-N anking railway to SoOchow Creek. Chinese machine-gun nests on the south hank are sweeping Japanese trying to cross, but isolated detachments have crossed. JapaBCse attillery shelled the Chinese aear Hungjao road, where the finest British homes ara pituated, and incendiary bombs are extending a wall of fiame in a semi-circle round the Settlornent. The Chinese elaim euccesses on the Peiping-Hankow railway (northern fronts). They have captured several tpwns. The Bed Army has blown up ■everal bridges. One hundred Japanese lorries are taking pnpplies to the beleagured Japanese troops in the Shansi province. The Japanese claim to have occnpied Ninataekwan Pass, on the HopeiShansi border, thus opening the railway to Taiyuan. They also claim to hava killed 13,000 Chinese. The whole of Chapei, one-fifth of Shanghai's total area, and recently hous-

ing 500,000 Chinese, is burrnng. It is one of the most terrible - conflagrations in history. Major Harrison, qf the Welsh Fusilier?, commanding the British posts at Soochoir Creek, to.day paid a tribute to thf Chinese discipline in the retreat. It was so orderly, he said, that the Japanese for a long time wero not jiware of the. evacuation. The Japanese, angored at the escape •f thei Chinese Army, machine-gunndd xnen, women and children captured in the area. Men of the TJlster Hilles machinegunned two Japanese planes bombing in the vicinity of three British posts. The British have withdrawn from the farthest outposts owing to the Chinese carrying out work of fortification in the neighbourhood. A consular notification warns foreigners to stay in their residences and to be prepared for evacuation. The Commander-in-Chief of the 'Ameriean forces has ordered the marines to fire in self.defence at aeroplanes bombing United States" posts. Japan has apologised for the death of in Italian grenadier.