ATTACK FROM THE SOUTH

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 38, 8 November 1937, Page 5

ATTACK FROM THE SOUTH

-Press Assn.—

New Japanese March On Shanghai TAIYUAN SURROUNDED

(By Telegraph-

Copyright.)

(Beceived 8, 2.15 p.m.) SHANGHAI, Kov. 7. After an engagement in which the Japanese lost 20 and the Chinese 1000 lalled and five field guns captured, the Japanese who landed at Hangchow Bay on November 5" have reached the Whangpoo xiver and are maxching on Sunkiang. Despite its threat to Pootung., the Chinese deny the reported evacuation of this place, declaring that the exit of the eivilian population was carried out nalder military orders to enable a more effective def ence of the position. The Japanese have captured HuchiaMao, in the Soochow Creek area, and hold a line along Lincoln Avenue running two miles westward from the International Settlement 500 yarda from the south bank of the creek. Heavy mutual bombardment to theadvantage of the Japanese continues on the main Shanghai front. , Incendiarists destroyed Tungwen Col* lege, the only Japanese university in China. Chinese prevented Settlement flre engines from approaching the scene. It is reported that the story of the capture of Tiayuanfu, capital of Shansi, is premature. The Japanese have surrounded it on three sides, but the defenders ignore the demand to surrender.