Evening star., 1932-02-13
JAPANESE DRIVE
IS DUE NEXT WEEK
"Big Push" Will Be Opened
Unless China Accepts
New Peace Plan.
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successful world reliance would again
be placed on armed forces and the
cause of disarmament would lose all it
gained since the World War.
Rev. Emory Luecock, American pas
tor of the Shanghai Community
Church, told the Associated Press the
American community, as far as he
knew it, was unanimous and indig-
nant in condemning Japan's entirely
miSnamed defense of Shanghai" Had
her punitive measures taken a "saner
and more civilized" course. he said, she
would have received considerable sup
port from Americans.
The belief now prevailed, he said,
that the Chinese attitude toward
foreigners in general would suffer and
the future status of the International
Settlement would be endangered
The japanese planes we're out early,
a few minutes after o'clock this
morning, to begin the laundering at
tack on Chapel again. Six of them
followed up bombardment which was
begun by japanese howitZerS in the fog
and mist. The heavy fire scattered
menaclng Chinese troop concentrations,
the japanese naval command said
The booming guns and bombs shook
the city as it had not been shaken
since fighting began two weeks ago.
When the fog began to GEAR away the
planes could be Seen seeking out their
objectives, then sWooping down to re-
lease their loads of destruction and
death. The bombardment awoke the
three foreign Ministers ana they hastily
grabbed telephones to learn what it was
all about.
Chinese Planes Awaited.
About $50 am. the SIX airplanes
wheeled to the north toward the Woo
sung forts. Clouds of fog and smoke
hung over the Whangpoo and the
planes disappeared in them, leaving
Chapel quiet. Meanwhile the Chinese
waited impatiently for the arrival of
four squadrons of their own planes
from Canton. New units of Chinese
infantry were being thrown into the
line to resist the big push the japanese
were expected to make, The japanese
forces had been increased by upward
OF 10000 additional soldiers.
A japanese spokesman said large
bodies of additional troops were off
Woosung and they would probably be
landed within few days. The spokes-
man at japanese naval headquarters
said the warships were having things
about as they pleased at Woosung They
forts, he said, Shelling them at will.
1T is a question of face" American
Minister johnson said. Neither side
wants to lose face Face is every
thing in the Far East. If any individ-
ual or group were capable of formulat-
ing some scheme by which face could
be saved all around then perhaps way
might be opened eventually for talk
designed to bring about peace"
A snowstorm swept over Woosung
during the afternoon and the Chinese
Immediately took advantage of the poor
visibility to rebuild their defenses and
to shift their troops, Gen. Tsai Ting
Kai, Chinese commander, told the As
sociated Press this evening.
Six large Japanese transports arrived
with more reinforcement troops from
Japan and seven more were expected
to arrive tomorrow.
Prepare for Attack.
The Chinese expected powerful
Japanese attack soon on all fronts, Gen.
Tsai said, and were preparing for it.
The young, cultured poet-warrior was
located at his headquarters four miles
behind the Chapel front and five miles
from the Japanese field gun battery on
the eastern borders of the Chapel sector.
If there was talk of cessation of hos
tilities it hadn't reached him, he said.
The last few days, inactive as far as
military action is concerned, he said,
have been used to good advantage by
his arm in strengthening its defenSeS
ana preparing for the expected thrust
He had no intention of withdrawing
from Shanghai, he said, and declared
he now has $4,000 men under his COM
mand in this area. "All of these troops
will be used" he said, Ito defend
Shanghai and Woosung if they are
needed" He said he was responsible
to no one except Gen. Chang Kai-Shek
and that his army had done well. so
there was no possibility 1t would be
withdrawn and supplanted by other
Chinese troops.
His army originated in South China,
he said, and was given the task OF hold
ing the line, or route, from Canton
westward to Marking and Kwangsi
Province. 1t originally consisted OF L.
600 men, but has been more than
doubled by re-enforcements
II and my comrades came north, ne
said, when Gen Chang Kai-Sheks
position at Nanking seemed endangered,
and we inherited this present task.
Under Gen. Chiang's regime, he said,
all high ranking military leaders are
given special tasks to perform, certain
"routes" or lines to hold, and the
strength of a route army is determined
by the length of the line it has to de-
fend
When night fell the japanese cruiser
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