Evening star., 1932-02-14
10000 JAPANESE
LAND AT. SHANGHAI
Expeditionary Force Arrives
on Seven Transports. Tanks
to Be Used.
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Greek and met q crushing defeat at the
hands Of the defenders.
The Japanese were supposed to have
crossed the creek late yesterday. bu:
the Associated Press correspondent In
the japanese lines there saw no such
movement.
Seven Transports Arrive.
Foreign observers. who entered the
debarkation zone here despite Japa nese
effcrts to cove rtheir troop movements
with secrecy, said they believed 10000
soldiers had been landed within q few
hours.
Seven japanese transports steamed
up the Whangpoo River last night un-
der the very noses of silent Chinese
guns at the Woosung forts and began
discharging the fighting men on
japanese docks within the Inter-
national Settlement.
The expeditionary force brought
along q large number Of tanks, cavalry
horses and great loads of war MUM
tions for use to crush the strong Chl-
nese machine-gun positions IN Chapeis S
vast network Of trenches.
At 10 am. the majority OF the new
comers seemed to have been landed.
although soldiers continued to trlckle
onto the docks.
Protest Filed With japanese.
Edwin S. Cunningham, United States
consul general, filed a protest with the
japanese consulate, but thus lar there
has been no reply.
Ringwalt Is from Omaha, Nebr., and
his companion, Mrs. L. Young, was born
in Los Angeles, Calf, Of Chinese par
ents. They entered Hongkew Thursday
to rescue the woman's baby, who was
In the home of q relative.
As they entered the section a croWo
of japanese asked them their business
Ringwalt displayed his American con-
sular credentials, which the japanese
failed to recognize. He and MIS-
Young then were roughly hanoleo aho
Neither of the two suffered i'll ef-
fects from their treatment and Mrs
Young later obtained her baby.
As for today's show of hostility be-
tween the two armies striving for pos
session Of the Shanghai front. only the
occasional booming Of artillery gave
proof that there still was life in Chapel
while the guns at Woosung were silent.
ArtilIerymen Unlimber Guns.
No sooner had the pale sun punctured
the blanket of fog and smoke that
oyerhung the city than the artillery
men in the Chapel zone unlimbered
their guns and set them echoing over
the metropolis. Quiet reigned at
Woosung.
japanese army officials undertook to
cover the movements Of their troops
with as much secrecy as possible. They
prevented all civilians from approaching
the docks where the men came ashore.
Observation from outlying points,
however, revealed that large numbers
of soldiers were being landed With full
field kits.
Chinese sources said japanese troops
crossed Woosung Greek, two miles In
land from the Whangpoo River last
night, under a heavy smoke screen laid
down by naval airplanes, but were
driven back with heavy losses by tense
machine-gun fire. They were REIN
forced, again advanced and again were
.outed, the Chinese, said, by two Chinese
regiments.
Bluejackets March to Docks.
The reports lacked support from other
sources, however.
A. the fresh Japanese troops landed
Japanese blueJackets marched 10 the
docks, apparently waiting their turn te
embark on the same transports, where
they were destined to 60 was unknown
to any but the Japanese, and they re-
manned uncommunicative as to what
was going on.
The area near the docks became
beehive of activity. Armed japanese
patrols swarmed the streets leading tc
the wharves to prevent any onlooker ap-
preaching the waterfront.
These new transports coming on the
heels of six troop ships that arrived
Friday, were conveyed by four cruisers
seven destroyers, and six torpedo boats
They were crowded to- the rails with
stocky sons of Japan, trained to do
the goose-step as well as the old Ger
man army and-what is more important
equipped with every implement OF
modern warfare.
The ease with which they entered
the Whangpoo indicated one thing to
military observers; although the Chi
nese still held the Woosung forts after
tons of shells and airplane bombs have
been rained on them, the long Japa-
nese bombardment apparently put the
guns of the fortress out OF commission
Military commentators agreed that the
Chinese scarcely would have permitted
the big troop movement If their guns
had been in shape to send the trans
ports to the bottom Of the river.
Raiders Cross Woosung.
Although japanese military authori-
ties announced they expected their big
drive to start at the earliest possible
moment" 1t was believed there would
be additional diplomatic maneuverine
before the guns and tanks prepared
the way for assault lines Of japanese
bayonets.
During the last few days the action
has been confined to the air, to the big
guns and to exchanges Of shots by ma
chine gunners and riflemen in the
trenches. But yesterday there was q
brief hand-to-hand clash.
A party Of Is Japanese, commanded
by a sergeant, made a quick raid from
their position on the west bank OF thu
Woosung. The raiders crossed tht
stream on a frail foot bridge. SHARP
rifle fire from the Chinese lines forced
them to retreat hastily, but they ef'
fected the capture Of one Chinese
soldier.
The captive, taken to headquarters
said he was 20 years old, had been ir
the army two months and enlisted "tc
get something to eat"
During most of Saturday 1t showed
on the Woosung Fort, impeding the
activity of/the japanese airmen, al
though they stayed aloft, dropping
occasional bombs.
The Chinese made good use Of thu
let-up necessitated by the blizzard
Gen. Tsai Ting-Kai, the poet-warriol