JAPANESE RAIDS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 223, 20 August 1937, Page 7

JAPANESE RAIDS.

BOMBS ON CHAPEI. Received August 20, 12.25 p.m. SHANGHAI, Aug. 19. With the rejection of both sides of tho British proposals for a neutral zone fighting has intensified. The Japanese opened a new offensive against Chapei and shells from the Idumo screamed over the Horigkew district to land in the war-shattered area. Six bombers joined in the attack and put the CRapei electric power station out of action. New fires rage at Chapei, also -around the Yangtse-poo Road and Yangtse-poo Point.

After the seizure of the Eastern Wharf of the China Merchants’ Steam Navigation Company by the Japanese as a reprisal for the Chinese seizure of the six Japanese ships with which the Wrangpoo River is blocked, the Chinese, with trench mortars, set fire to the wharf of tlie Nippon Yusen Kaisha Line, on the Pootung side of the river. Tlie Japanese, who admit that 13 aviators were killed in air raids on Nanking on August 15, again raided Nanking to-day, losing two out of the eight bombers en. route, who were shot down by the Chinese. The remainder, according to the Chinese, disappeared in the face of pursuit ’planes after dropping their bombs two miles from the Nanking, aerodrome, but the Japanese claim to have exploded a powder magazine a.nd destroyed a large section of the Slianghai-Nanking railway.