SHELL-FIRE IN SHANGHAI BATTLE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 31, 30 October 1937, Page 5

SHELL-FIRE IN SHANGHAI BATTLE

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There May be More "Regrettable Incidents" ULSTERMEN IN THE DANGER ZONE

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(Received 30, 12.30 p.m.) SHANGHAI, Oct. 29. Three Ulster Riflemen, were killed and several wounded by phells falling in the western sector during a new battle. Numbers of Chinese also were killed within the Settlement. The Ulstermen were killed at Jessfield Park. The British troops have been placed in a dangerous position by the transfer of the fighting to a new zone. The Ulstermen were Under fire to-day during a terrific artillery duel. Dug-onts were raked by shrapnel and shaken by explosions from the Chinese mines. The Japanese Foreign Office spokesman expressed the fear that, despite every precantion, there would be "unexpected and regrettable incidents in Shanghai." There might be further accidental prachine-gunning of foreigners when the Japanese airmen were tryjng to dislodge the Chinese, he added.

An eye-witness, describing the deatha of Ulster Riflemen Howard, Mallon and O'Toole and the Wounding of Riflemen Delaney, Maguire and Downey, says that a shell burst over a pos.t close to the Soochow Creek, where Riflemen Mallon and Howard ptood. Shrapnel etruck Rifleman Mallon in Ihe back, killing him ihstant]y. Rifleman Howard was struck In the chest and died eoon afterwards. Rifleman Maguire may lose a leg. Rifleman Delaney was badly wounded in the thigh. Rifleman Tomlinson was taken to hospital with shell-shoek. Rifleman O'Toole, who was off duty, was killed inside a safe, where a misdirected ehell blew in the shopfront, and killed two Chinese on the pavepent. •Rifleman O'Toole's face was so disigured that it was not known for some time who he was. The barmaid was wounded in the face and'fled screaming from the cafe. • The casualties were dne to a Japanese hattery three-qnartera of a mile distant opening fire with the idea of shelling th# Shanghai-Hangehow railway. Fifty shells fell wide, many 500 yards within the British area and one direct!y on a British post, reducing it to a shacnbles. The Japanese ceased shelling when ppprised of the casualties,