FIGHTING INTENSIFIED.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20277, 20 August 1937, Page 7

FIGHTING INTENSIFIED.

NEW JAPANESE OFFENSIVE. _______ j REJECTION OF BRITISH PROPOSALS BOMBS CAUSE DESTRUCTION IN NANKING. (United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright.) (Received August 20. 12.30 p.m.) SHANGHAI, August 19. With the rejection by both sides of the British proposals the fighting has been intensified. The Japanese opened a new offensive against Chapei, and shells from the Idzumo screamed over the Kongkew district to land in the warshattered area. Six bombers joined in the attack and put the Chapei electric power station out of action. New fires raged in Chapei, also around the Yangtse Poo road and Yangtse Poo Point. After the seizure of the eastern wharf of the Chinese Merchants’ Steam Navigation Company by Japanese, as a reprisal for the Chinese seizure of six Japanese ships with which the Wankpoo River is blocked, the Chinese with trench mortars, set fire to the wharf of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Company on the Pootung side of the river. The Japanese, who admit that thirteen aviators were killed in the air raids on Nanking on August 15, again raided Nanking to-day, losing two out of eight bombers en route, which were shot down by the Chinese. The remainder, according to the Chinese, disappeared in the face of the pursuit planes after dropping bombs two miles from the Nanking aerodrome, but the Japanese claim that they exploded a powder magazine and destroyed a large portion of the Slianghai-Nanking railway.