MANY AIR RAIDS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 222, 19 August 1937, Page 2

MANY AIR RAIDS

3.45 P.M. EDITION.

FIGHTING AT SHANGHAI. SEVERAL FIRES RAGING. (United Press Association.; —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received August 19, 1t!.20 p.m. SHANGHAI, Aug. 18. After another day of bombardment, bombing, explosions, fires and street lighting in Shanghai it is still impossible to say which side is winning, though the Mayor (Mr Yui) nays that the Chinese will have driven the Japanese back to their ships within a week. , During to-night’s air raid one bomber scored n hit on the telephone exchange within the British defence area. Another bomber flew over fbe Chinese positions r.t Chapei and Iviaiigwan. where buildings were blown up and fires started. A third ’piano dropped no bomlxs blit-caused panic among the inhabitants in the French Concession, flying just above the roof tops. Both sides deny that the ’plane which bombed the 'telephone exchange was theirs, blit people who watched it from roof tops insist that it was Japanese. A fferce duel followed between the warships and the Chinese artillery at Pootung, in which the Jdumo and other ships stretching to IVoosung, joined m. One shell set fire to the British cotton mills. Several fires are now raging. A fierce sixteen-hour battle m the city ended by the withdrawal of the Chinese troops, who had forced their, way into the International Settlement, many being killed ou both sides. The Chinese claimed that they had advanced in the Yanetse-poo district, northeast of the city. They ako claimed to have pressed hack tbe Japanese m tbe section of Chapei which they have held. The Japanese bombers several times pounded the Chinese lines at Chapei and Kiangwan. diving daringly low before releasing their boiiibs. The Japanese heavily bombed Clienju. on the western outskirts, wrecking the Chinese radio station and laying a. vib.ago to waste.

SAFETY OF FOREIGNERS

TWO ESSENTIALS

(British Official Wireless.) Received August 19. 1.32 p.m. RUGBY, Aug. 18. • lii connection with the Shanghai situation, it is understood that the British view of the essentials of any scheme for the isolation of the Intelnational Settlement from the thcatie of the Si no-Japanese host IPies is: (1) The mutually agreed upon exclusion of the Japanese and Chinese military and naval forces from ‘the zone including and surroundinShanghai. T (9) To give confidence to the Japanese for the safety of their national on the one hand and to the Chinese against the use ot the International Settlement as a military base on the other hand, also that tbe protection or tbe Japanese in Shanghai should be entrusted to the other foreign contingents in the Settlement. . , Britain, France and the United States 'ate continuing their arrangements for. tbe evacuation of their nationals and at a meeting of the British Vinisters in London it was agreed that efficient measures should lie taken to ensure the safety of British nationals who for business reasons are unable tu leave Shanghai.