CHAPEI AGAIN A STORM CENTRE IN CHINA-JAPAN CONFLICT.—When the Japanese in 1932 bombarded the Chinese suburb of Chapei, on the northern fringe of Shanghai, thousands of non-combatants, men, women and children, were killed. The Japanese cruisers lay secure in the Yangtse and hurled their high explosive shells over the International Settlement, wrecking the unfortunate defenceless Chapei. In 1935 there was another episode where a Japanese marine was knifed, and resident, of Chapei, where the fatal brawl occurred afraid of a recurrence of a Japanese bombardment, flocked across the Foochow Creek into the Settlement with all their household goods. After a few days, nothing happening, they migrated back to their homes. Now the bridges are held, the unfortunates in Chapei, an area that seems to be again involved, are in the storm centre of devastating war. The photograph shows the reconstructed main street of Chapei. and in the centre a Chinese returning after the 1935 scare. He is transporting all his worldly good, on one of the big-wheeled barrows that will carry nearly as much as an ordinary dray.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 222, 19 August 1937, Page 4

CHAPE I AGAIN A STORM CENTRE IN CHINA-JAPAN CONFLICT.— When the Japanese in 1932 bombarded the Chinese suburb of Chapei, on the northern fringe of Shanghai, thousands of non-combatants, men, women and children, were killed. The Japanese cruisers lay secure in the Yangtse and hurled their high explosive shells over the International Settlement, wrecking the unfortunate defenceless Chapei. In 1935 there was another episode where a Japanese marine was knifed, and resident, of Chapei, where the fatal brawl occurred afraid of a recurrence of a Japanese bombardment, flocked across the Foochow Creek into the Settlement with all their household goods. After a few days, nothing happening, they migrated back to their homes. Now the bridges are held, the unfortunates in Chapei, an area that seems to be again involved, are in the storm centre of devastating war. The photograph shows the reconstructed main street of Chapei. and in the centre a Chinese returning after the 1935 scare. He is transporting all his worldly good, on one of the big-wheeled barrows that will carry nearly as much as an ordinary dray.