BOTH PREPARING
BIG OFFENSIVE COMING SHANGHAI, Wednesday. ■ ' Shanghai is nervously awaiting the offensive which the new Japanese troops are e-xpected to launch on W ednesday. Five Chinese ariny corps under General Feng Yu-Hsiang are concentrating in the -Shanghai-Nanlcing railway area. The Japanese are performing rehearsals preparatory to an attempt to capture Chapei. . Three large fires started at dusk iri the Kiangwan area where the Jaibanese are taking positions. ; The Chinese 'apparently are prepaf ing to meet the _offensive as heavy reinforcements have arrive d and a large coneentration is taking place along a wide front. The Chinese lines in som'e places are barely half a mile from the J'apanese, but both sides are withholding their fire. A rumour that Marshal Chiang Kai-Shelc is cOming to Shanghai to assist in the defenees fvas strengthened to-day when 2,000 of his personal crack troops reached Chengju. The cessation of heavy firing around the Settlement with intensive military preparations on both sides is causing the authorities more alarm than the actual Chapei ffghting, sinee the pending hostilities undoubtedly will drive the Chinese towards the Settlement boundaries.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 150, 18 February 1932, Page 5
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