Evening star., 1932-02-02
FIGHTING RENEWED
ON CHINESE FRONT
Disturbance Continues at
Shanghai-Tense Condl-
tion at Nanking.

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Chinese retaliated by setting fire to the
japanese district of HongkeW IN the
International Settlement. A large sec
tion of it was burning.
Gunfire was shaking the Wnole clty
while airplaneS roared overhead.
Airplanes from the japanese aircraft
carriers Hosho and N0tCrO made
scouting tour of the Chapel district
first scouting and dropping oomoS
later.
japanese Withdraw.
The Japanese withdrew INTO tne
northern part of the international oe1-
tlement because OF the hre' ana @ !lle
japanese consul general was louLlo!t!s
nm refugees near the Whangpo RlVer'
from where they could easily be eVac-
uated. ..,,. to.
The Chinese used Stokes mortarS -or
artillery. The Japanese continued ther
artillery bonlbardment as well as Ile
machine gun fire. The whole had every
appearance of a major engagement.
The explosions of the guns shook tlle
entire foreign settlement, Leading 10
the belief that the japanese were uoLtls
heavy ordnance which, 1t was tilousLI'
must be the guns on the WarshlpS i'll
the lower river. ..L -
belch a noisy reply to the japanese
Shellng.
Heavy Guns Put in Action.
The oombardment followed long air
recOnnaisance by japanese planes,
which struck terror into the hearts OF
hOth foreigners and Chinese, VINO eH-
pectad another rain Of bombs to Shatter
The CITY. The flyers landed without any
apparent action. however. OBSERVERS
said they believed they were taxing eA-
tensive photographs Of Chapel.
The japanese swung their heavy guns
into action at $50 pm. and the new
action drowned out the din of the pre-
yio1Is encounter. the rattle of the ma
chine guns and the booming OF the
lighter artillery and the Chinese trench
mortars.
Meantime the International Settle
nent garrison had finished its Sandbag
OutpOsts and went ahead Strengthening
the barbed wire barriers in the streets.
Along the boundaries were Americans,
British, French and Italian, under steel
helmets, standing side by side to repulSe
any attack.
All Streets Barricaded.
Every street was barricaded and
guarded but thousands OF refugees
noured through the narrow apertureS in
the barbed wire Police estimated that
more than $4,000 had sWarmed into the
Settlement since the fighting in Chapel
began.
All the newcomers were searched for
weapons and the streets were Jammed
despite the fact that all the stores were
closed.
Women were enrolling by the score
In a motor corps such as served the
allies in the World War, and all the
men civilians were volunteering Tor an
auxiliary defense unit. More than 5000
foreign residents have been thus en-
rolled. .,,
The authorities said there was still
food in sufficient quantities for present
purposes within the settlement.
The British arm of the settlement
garrison strung outpostS well into Chi
nese territory paralleling the western
boundary Of the settlement. They did
this to protect extensive foreign prop
erty in that area. leaving each outpost
well fortified against attack from any
direction and armed with machine guns
and rifles.
L. s. Marines Menaced.
It was much the same in the north
ern area of the settlement where
United States Marines were on patrol.
Machine guns were ready behind sand
bag barricades, but the American posi-
tion was more delicate than that Of any
of the other foreign troops.
Only the Narrow SooChoW Greek sep
arated the American patrol area from
the Chapel battlefield, and the chief
danger was that retreating Chinese
troops might be pushed up against the
American line into the U-shaped
curvature of the creek. where they
might quite possibly be trapped.
japanese bluejackets were on patrol
within the American area, guarding
cotton mills there with machine guns,
and should the fighting grow hot there
was a menace in the possibility of firing
between japanese patrols and Chinese
troops across the American defense
line
The whole foreign settlement was
virtually surrounded by Chinese forces,
with the heaviest concentrations on
the west and north.
The Chinese established a line paral-
Ieling the railroad west of the city,
building trenches and leaving a mile
wide buffer strip between their lines
and the settlement boundary. At the
Northern settlement limit the Chinese
lines were in closer.
Foreign Sections Infringed On.
Foreign stores and homes in the out
skirts of the settlement were vacated
and barbCd-Wire entanglementS were
thrown up around some of them. Every
where along the boundaries American
Marines were on the march and patrols
of other powers were frequently to be
seen.
Trucks rolled by bearing numbers of
Chinese wounded.
This afternoon commanders Of all the
foreign forces in the settlement pro-
tested to their consul general that
the japanese branch of the garrison
was infringing on sectors patrolled by
Americans, British and Italians.
They said the japanese were pushing
into the areas controlled by the others,
and they charged brutality, citing as one
instance the bayoneting by japanese
blue-jaCketS of a l6-year-old Chinese
boy who picked up a rock and moved as
though to throw it at the japanese
patrol.
ReaSsure Foreigners.
Earlier in the day the Chinese issued
q fiat statement. declaring they would
oppose any further japanese attacks
within Chapel, but they would be care
ful to refrain from touching the for
eign settlement. They declared there
are now $4,000 Chinese troops in
Shanghai.
The statement said the Chinese ci-
villain authorities were working in COM