The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-23
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 Killed Or Wounded
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 jectiles crashing deafeningly, work ing in relays of three planes each,
 Outside the city, along the Whangpoo and Yangtze rivers, the greatest battle of the war was m the making.
 Saving Japanese Navy
 During the daix hours of last night and early morning the first Japanese troop. endorsements, rushed from the homeland to extri- cate the Navy from it's predicament, landed at half dozen points ct the mouths of the rivers.
 The warships strung along the Whangpoo were moved down river. They put up a blasting lombard ment behind the shore line and under the protection of the guns the Japanese won a foothold at their landing points.
 But soon they were challenged by Chinese regulars, and severe fight ing broke out at all the landing points.
 This operation, however, over- shadowed by the tragic bombings in the city, was the big development Of the Shanghai part of the war.
 1932 Repeats Itself
 It meant that 1882 had repeated itself. The Navy, while the Army was busy in the north, had started its own little war. It had met, as in 1892, unexpectedly stiff resistance Reluctantly and after days of fight ing desperately at their battered lines in the Hongkew-Japanese-- section of the international settle- ment, the Army had come to the rescue.
 Estimates of the total strength of the Army men sent to the Shanghai area ran as high as 50,000 -- and more.
 At points all along the Whangpoo and Yangtze between Shanghai and the sea, eight to IS miles from the city proper, hand to hand fighting broke out.
 Withstanding stoutly the warship bombardment in which 1t was esti- mated 500 big shells were fired, the Chinese were waiting for the first landing parties.
 Hand To Hand Fighting
 By 1 a. m. hand to hand fighting had broken out. Chinese regulars stood up to mixed brigades of Japa- nese troops and sailors and fought stubbornly for hours.
 Slowly, the Chinese were pressed back at some points, fighting all the way, and as fast as the lines moved inland new Japanese transports waiting at the river mouth sent their troops ashore.
 The Japanese stormed and took Wenchaopang railroad station on the Shanghai-Woosung railroad. At Woosung village nearby they storm ed and took the terminal of the rail- road and the military highway that leads into Shanghai.
 Casualties were high on both sides and grew with the hours.
 The Japanese hope was to trap the Chinese in groups and wipe them out. That would mean that the settlement would be in the gravest danger because the Chinese, if cut off from their main force, probably would retreat with their arms into the settlement.
 Jap Army Spokesman Mai. Gen. Utsunomiya, newly in- stalled Japanese army spokesman here, said:
 "The Japanese army will avoid as much as possible waging war near the foreign settlement. But engage ments must occur in the general vicinity"
 Asked whether the Japanese rtoop endorsements numbered as many as 50,00o, Utsunomyva said blandly:
 "You may be on the short side" The army spokesman said that SO far the Japanese had been on the defensive against Chinese at tack which menaced the interna- tional settlement.
 It was evident that at last Japan, whose army and navy spokesman had spoken contemptuously of punitive expeditions" knew they were in a war and were all out to crush China.
 British Dancer Dies
 At about the time of the bombing Miss Josephine "Dodie" Hatton' British dancer born in Shanghai died at the country hospital-where Correspondent Billingham was talk en-of wounds she received in the terrible August IA bombing Of the Palace and Cathay hotel area.
 Japanese airplanes bombed Ch!- nese in the North railroad station area of Shanghai this afternoon while Japanese warships bombardeo Pootung on the other side Of the river. One destroyer moored al Hongkew dock and fired point blank into the Chinese lines across the river.
 Flames from new fires in the Japanese Hongkew section leapeo up toward dark.