The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-13
Japdnese, Chinese
 In First Real Clash
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 for immediate achievements. Thir- ty-three Japanese warships were c0ncentrated here, but the Chinese had massed a great army. Troop trains were given the right of way on all railroads converging on Shanghai and I arrived here on the last airplane permitted for civil- ian use on the Shanghai-HanKoW line.
 Battle Starts This Afternoon
 A battle that looked like the starr of a new Shanghai war started in the northern part of the city tnlS afternoon, following three mlnor clashes this morning.
 Chinese regulars and a landing marty of Japanese bluejackets began lighting just of the rifle range, in the northern area and near the Japanese barracks. Rifle and ma chine gun fire were started and pro- Ceeded for some time. The Chinese responded shot for shot. The Japa- nese realized that they were in TOT a fight. Orders were sent back for a battery of field guns and for tanks which were soon in line.
 Whole Blocks Ahame
 Great clouds of smoke became visible from the international set- clement, between the fighting zone and the river. From vantage points on the northern fringe of the set- clement it looked as if whole blocks must be afiame. The fires were caused by Japanese field gun shells, apparently. The fighting centered along the old Shanghai-Woosung branch railroad. This was one Of the most bitterly fought objectives in the 1882 fighting. It is important because along the little line, Japa- nese could bring men in from the Woosung area at the mouth Of the Yangtze, where most of their war ships are anchored.
 Smoke clouds from the artillery fire and the fires 1t started p4- lowed over the thickly congested Chapel native area, at the south- west side of the fighting zone.
 Sporadic firing, sniping mostly, broke out in the other sectors about the city.
 Foreign Troops Ready
 Foreign troops, including United States marines, were ready for ac. ton and the Shanghai corps oi volunteers was mobilized. The vol unteer corps included four com panies of American citizens, includ- ing one company of cavalry and one of Filipino residents here.
 The volunteers took defensive po' sitions and tried as far as was pos sible to cut of the main interna- tional settlement from that portion of 1t which Japanese bluejackets were guarding.
 Troops had not been called out though a few of the United States marines went on patrol duty, dur ing the early part of today's fight- ing.
 (Editors: For your information the United Press Shanghai bureau, flling at 4:06 @. m. EDT, said that reports that the marines were on duty in full force were absolutely untrue, and that the marines had not even been ordered to stand by.-UPA.)
 Professional Russian white Jguards," employed by the volun- teee corps, manned important spots along the settlement border. PICK UP THREE
 Chinese Offensive Near
 The word up river, at Nanking the national capital, IS that thC Chinese may start @ general of. fensive on all fronts Sunday. Here counted 54 war planes lined up or the field. At every air port along the Yangtze valley counted from l2 to 24 planes. They had flown inland because of the danger that the Shanghai airports might be bombarded by the Japanese war. ships, or be bombed by the planes from the Japanese airplane carrier anchored off the Woosung forts at the river mouth.
 All the time, more and more Chi- nese troops reached Shanghai.
 The morning began with Japanese reservists turning out in force to guard Japanese property, including the great cotton mills scattered through Chinese areas. Japanese navy patrols, heavily armed and on