The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-15
NEA Madrid Bureau

, tlOn. lnVebLiSatlOH SnOWeQ that the movement behind the Chinese lines was a replacement of troops by fresh soldiers, apparently eager for the duty before them.
 Chinese trench mortars shelled the Japanese defense area late Monday while the ninth division marched into positions. Several shells fell near General Uyeda's headquarters. Several houses in the vicinity were damaged but no Japanese was hit. The headquar- ters escaped the shells. Japanese howitzers returned the fire.
 Fighting ceased at the Woosung forts after the morning lombard ment under which the Japanese transports came up the Whangpoo river.
 General Uyeda summed up the Japanese position curtly. "The Chinese army must withdraw from Shanghai. And the farther, the better" he told the United Press.
 The Chinese answer to the Jap anese preparations and threat was the dispatch of more troops for Shanghai. The Big Sword" corps of General Feng Yu-Hsiang, "the Christian general" and the 54th division entrained at Ranking. Gen. eral Chiang Kai-Shek, China's greatest military strategist, arrived at Nanking and indicated he would come here soon to direct warfare against Japan.
 I asked General Uyeda, taller than the average Japanese and slightly stopped, if he thought 1t possible to remove the present un- rest in Shanghai while the Chinese remained here.
 The general, who speaks only Japanese, asked an interpreter to repeat my question. Brushing his hand across his bristling mous- tache, he countered quickly, What do you thing?" then added:
 My mission is to remove the cause of unrest, which can be &C., complished only by the withdrawal of the Chinese armies. I hope such fly. Otherwise sterner measures will be necessary. Hope the Chin ese take the hint"
 General Uyeda repeatedly re- ferred to the ninth division as a peace army" He said his men were relieving marines who have been guarding the Hongkew area of the International Settlement un- der intense Chinese fire.
 He emphasized the fact that he had not sent any ultimatum to the Chinese but was preparing a state- ment demanding their withdrawal which would not, however, estab- fish 8 time limit for Chinese evacu- ation.
 While the Japanese went ashore from transports and marched into their billets or into the lines, Gen. eral Uyeda conferred with Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura and other Japanese commanders and author tiles here. He also received United States Colonel Richard Hooker and British General George Fleming, commanding the settlement de- fense, and United States Admiral Montgomery M. Taylor and British Admiral Sir Howard Kelly, respec- tive commanders of the American and British naval forces in the Orient.
 Chinese reports that Japanese troops who crossed Woosung Creek Saturday, trapping a Chinese force, had been wiped out" with a great loss of life, were denied by the Japanese. They said officially that their losses in the fighting were 36 killed and wounded. The failure of the attack against the Woosung forts, however, re- suited in the Japanese diverting their forces at Woosung to Shang- hai for the offensive which will follow Chinese refusal to withdraw they said.
 The Japanese left outposts along Woosung Creek while most troops formerly in the area were sent division.
 CHINESE APPEAL TO POPE