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AIR BOMBING

GENERAL OFFENSIVE LAUNCHED BY JAPANEBE 7000 KILLED AT SHANGHAI United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel 4 Copyright. SHANGHAI, Aug. 25 In brilliant sunshine and under a cloudless sky the Japanese launched a general offensive on all roads leading to Shanghai from Woosung. The Chinese have concentrated large forces in trenches and are holding the lines in spite of intense air bombing and shelling from warships, which covered the landing of heavy artillery. Huge fires have started at Pootung and Hongkew. A Japanese Army spokesman stated that unless the Chinese ceased firing from Pootung the Japanese would be compelled to dislodge them. If they retired to Nantao the Japanese must regard it as a military area and shell it, in spite of the large civil population. The danger that retreating Chinese will attempt to storm the barricades of the International Settlement Is becoming graver. Artillery is arriving from Hongkong and all measures are being prepared to resist attack and evacuate the Settlement as a last resort. An inventory is being taken of property, business and personal, in the event of the necessity of claiming damages.

British military experts estimate that the Chinese have lost from 7000 to 11,000 killed and wounded in fighting at Shanghai, excluding thousands of civilian casualties in air raids and naval bombardments. v . A SERIOUS SITUATION BRITISH ACTION POSBIBLE. PREDICTION BY MISSIONARY BISHOP ANXIOUS FOR FAMILY. UnJled Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright VANCOUVER, Aug. 24 Dr. W. J. Sipprell, United Church missionary in China, who arrived at Vancouver to-day, predicted that British and French military action In China will be compelled. The Anglican Bishop of Honan, who arrived in Canada for a conference, has received no word of his family in Shanghai and will return by the next boat.

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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20282, 26 August 1937, Page 9

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Tapeke kupu
291

AIR BOMBING Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20282, 26 August 1937, Page 9

AIR BOMBING Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20282, 26 August 1937, Page 9

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