The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-10

The Japanese preparations fol- lowed a day of heavy areial &C., tivity on the Woosung front.
 The Japanese made no efforts during the day to capture the Chinese positions at any point a. long the 20-mile Woosung-Shang- hal front. They kept up a desul- tory bombardment. One bomb destroyed the huge clock tower of Futan University.
 Several buildings in the Kiang- wan district near the race course were afiame. Japanese scouting planes found the Chinese artillery positions at Kiangwan after which their artillery opened fire.
 The Chinese responded to the intermittent Japanese lombard ments. the 18th route army defy ing orders from Gen. Chiang Kali Shek Generalissimo, to cease hos tilities.
 The Japanese described concen- trations of 15,000 "disorderly' Chinese troops in the vicinity of Soochow and the nasty erection of emergency defense works between Shanghai and that inland city.
 Similar activities in Manchuria inevitably heralded the extension of the Japanese sphere of military influence. Rumors gave rise to speculation that the Japanese in- tended to push on to Soochow after cleaning up in the Shanghai area.
 The 18th army commanders, however. insisted they had no in- ton of yielding. By Sunday, the Japanese said they would have 15,000 crack troops in the Shang- hai delta.
 Japanese bombers zoomed low dropping tons of high explosives. Chinese anti-aircraft guns and a handful of swift pursuit planes harassed the attacking aerial fleet.
 The air attack was reinforced by heavy shell fire from the Japanese artillery positions, Salvo after salvo was fired broadside into Chapel. On the WOosung front 10 miles be- low Shanghai, Japanese warships continued broadsides to reduce the Chinese fortifications to submis- sion.
 The Chinese executed a Japanese steamboat captain captured on board his ship off Lunghua arsenal above Shanghai. The Japanese was taken to military headquarters. Af- ter a summary hearing, he was shot.
 Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, commanding Japanese forces, as- serted that the Japanese navy is attempting to restore order"
 we are seeking to maintain our defense positions" Nomura told me, but the Chinese continue their provocative acts, assaulting and executing Japanese and attacking the Japanese lines.
 q demand that the Chinese troops withdraw and cease attack ing the Japanese defense area. Otherwise, 1t will be necessary for the Japanese naval and military forces to push the Chinese army 20 miles back of Shanghai"
 This has been the Japanese ob- jective since the outset of their offensive against the Chinese fore es in Chapel late last month.
 The Japanese air force began re- connoitering over the entire front from Shanghai to Paoshan City be- low Woosung at 8:30 a. m. (7:30 D. m. Tuesday E. s. ID
 In the Chapel area Japanese &C., tivities indicated general offen- sive might be under way.
 The Japanese concentrated ar- tillery and infantry forces in the Woosung point area, where their fve-day attack so far had failed to evict the stubborn Chinese troops.
 Within the international settle ment, the ominous silence during the night prior to the aerial bom- bardment was believed to presage general offensive which might re- suit in a crisis involving American and other foreign troops.
 Chinese pursuit planes, wings glis- tening in intermittent glimpses of the winter sun, harassed the heav- fer Japanese bombers. They opened up with machine-gun fire. They darted away before Japanese fight ing planes in the convoy could catch up with them.
 Edwin $. Cunningham. the Uni ted States consul-General, said he had not yet replied to the note from Mayor Wu Teh-Chen yester- day protesting against the contin. ued use of the international settle ment by the Japanese forces. Cun- ningham added that he might not reply.
 Heavy artillery continued In the vicinity of the Kiangwan race track just uotside Shanghai. toward Woo