The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-03
LULL IN WAR
ENDS; CHINESE
BATTLE FOES
Clash Renewed After Order
S Given by Japanese to
Cease Operations.
TERMS ARE REJECTED
Idea of Neutral Zone Met
With Flat Refusal
by Defenders.
BY II. II. EKINS
United Press STAFF Correspondent

Copyright. 1882. by United Press
SHANGHAI, March 3.-Fighting
was in progress tonight at Nanzi-
ang and Liuho, the Chinese an
nounced in an official communique.
The announcement ended hopes
Of immediate peace in the Shang-
hal sector, although the japanese
stated earlier that all military ope-
rations had been ordered to cease.
Nanziang is twenty miles west Of
Shanghai, on the railway to Nam
king.
Liuho IS north Of the city, on
the Yangtze.
The Chinese refused today to &C
cept the Japanese idea of a neu-
trail zone around Shanghai, de-
manding immediate and complete
withdrawal of the japanese troops.
Japanese Control Chapel
The Chinese later announced Off
cially that Chang Kwang-Nai, COM
mander-in-chie of the Nineteenth
Chinese route army, would order
cessation of hostilities tonight, I'M
less the Japanese renew their at
tacks.
The Japanese we're in complete
control of Chapel and announced no
Chinese would be allowed IN the
ire under any circumstances Tor
the next three days.
Chambers of commerce represent
ing business men of nine nations
Jointly protested to United States
Consul General Edwin Cunningham
today the continued usurpation of
police powers in the international
settlement by Japanese military and
naval forces.
The British, American, Belgian,
Danish, French, German, Italian,
Netherlands and Norwegian cham
bers asked Cunningham to make
urgent representations to japanese
authorities.
They claimed the usurpation has
been somewhat modified, but that
its continuance is injuring trade.
Japanese Occupy Fort
The Chinese forts at Woosung,
end WooSung village were occupied
by the japanese shortly before the
operations were halted. A final two
hour Smelling enabled the japanese
to take the Notifications.
The Japanese military and naval
high commands issued statements
identical with that of the consul
general. General ~Shirakawa, new
commander of the military here,
said:
We have decided to order the
hating of our forces for the time
being, at points actually held, and
to stop fighting provided that the
Chinese forces do not resort to
further hostile actions"
The end of the japanese often
Sive found the countryside in ruins
on an 18-mile battle line from the
international settlement to the Lion
Forest forts on the Yangtze river.
Chapel in Ruins
At the doors of the settlement
the once prosperous Chinese city Of
Chapel was reduced to a mass Of
blackened remnants of homes an6
buildings. Fires still burned in the
ruins of cotton mills in the dis
trict.
With danger over, hundreds Wis.
tied what a few days ago was a nc
mans land of sudden death ano
destruction among abandoned anc
ruined dwellings along north
Szechuen road.
The fighting began at Chapel
Jan. 20, then spread over the eight
een-mile front. Fierce combat con-
tinued until Wednesday, when tht
Chinese Nineteenth route army an
nounced it was withdrawing tt
Quinsan, twelve and one-half mile,
from Shanghai. The Chinese called
the movement a tactical withdrawal
The Japanese claimed is as a rout.