JAPANESE ATTACK
Chinese Hoid Their Line WELLINGTON", This Day. The Chinese consult has received the following cablegram from Nanking: *'The Japanese forces aie concentrating tlieir attack. upon.Nianziang, using heavy artilleTy, planes and iufantry. The attack is severe, but ihe Chinese hold their line. ' "There is little fighting on the other fronts. "Japanese planes are bombing ihe Chinese positions in westem districts. Several Japanese attempts to pass Siaonanziang were frustrated. - The Chinese consul has received tho Japanese accusation that the shells which killed the British soldiers were fired by the Chinese forces. It is alleged that the Japanese intentionally fired, retaliating against the frastration by the international defence forces of the Japanese attempt to attack the wiarehouse oceupied by the "suicide battalion" from Soochow Creek."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 32, 1 November 1937, Page 7
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