GUNS SILENCED
(New York Times Broadcast)
IAPANESE BOMBERS ATTACK
SHANGHAI, Wednesday. To-day, there was hlue sky over jgreatest part of the area, and expt for desultory artillery fire and easional sliarp aerial bombing, the iapei-IIongkoew front was quie-t. While the Japanese engineers conitied feverishly to construct a ponjnbridge across the Woosung, they ire oceasionally harassed hy Chine maehine-guns. The Japanese arlery from time to time opened up a mbardment with a hattery of renty-fives, flinging sliells. across 3 creek. A Japanese destroyer also mbarded the Chinese position with e-iivh guns. Early yesterday morninfg, three panese homhing planes escorted by o swift Japanese craft, rained a fi-uctiye shower of hombs upon the linese artillery which, for the last ,v days, has heen sending numers anti-aircraft shells into the Intoational Settlement. The Chinese tillery was silenced.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 146, 12 February 1932, Page 5
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