Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-17

! powerful reprlSal raid against the
| Chinese Chapel and Kiangwan areas
to the north and the Chinese lines.
The bombardment centered about the
Commercial Press Building near the
northern edge OF the International
| Settlement.
The building, which suffered heav-
lily in 1882 warfare, was reported shell
tering concentrations Of Chinese artil-
lery batteries. The bombs started fires
which ragged over an area Of several
square miles.
China's own artillery and bomb at
tack was aimed at the japanese posi-
| tons in the Hongkew district OF the
International Settlement, which lies
at the northern edge along a curve of
| the Whangpoo River and at japanese
warships in the stream.
| Areas around both the japanese and
Chinese lines were blazing from fires
started by the bursting shells. A ris-
ing wind famed the flames
Mrs. Roosevelt, Jr., Leaves.
Among the refugees who left Shang-
hal today were Mrs. Theodore Roose-
welt. Jr.. and her son Quentin, who
went down the Whangpoo to the Presi-
dent Jefferson. bound for Manila.
Twice Dollar Line tender made
the perilous trip down the Whangpoo.
safely carrying loads of American
refugees to the liner President Jeffer-
son. Then the ship slipped out to the
open sea toward Manila.
Another Dollar liner, the President
Hoover from Manila, was expected to
complete fast 54-hour run Thursday
to pick up more Americans fleeing
from the war dangers and privations.
She carried United States Marine re-
Inducements and doctors.
British Troops Landed At Shanghai.
The WEIGH Fusiliers, a British bat
talon Of about $50 men, transferred
at the Woosung anchorage to the
n. M. s. Delight and were landed up-
river at Shanghai. They marched
from the Bund to the race course in
the heart Of the International Settle
ment
British tenders, following in the
wake OF the American, reached the
refugee ship Rajputana, which had
Withdrawn about six miles toward the
sea The Rajputana. her refugee pas
sengers safely aboard, put out toward
Hong Kong, British crown colony to
the south.
Japanese warships were spraying
the western positions OF the settle
ment with shell fragments as they
sought Intellectually to down a low-fy-
ing Chinese pursuit plane. Authorities
OF the French concession reported the
Jagged hunks of metal were taking a
similar toll there.
The full fury of the Chinese at
Jack broke against the japanese posi-
lions in the Hongkew district of the
International Settlement and the JAP
anese warships along the Whangpoo
river front.
A mounting panic gripped the crowds
along the famous Bund that follows
the winding course OF the Whangpoo
Fathers watched their wives and chill
dren aboard tenders disappear into
the she'll smoke haze hanging low on
the river, mumbled a frantic prayer
for their safety and then fled.
The drawn and whitened faces of
the women peered from portfolios as
the launches cast off from the customs
)etty for the perilous 10-mile journey
down the Whangpoo to the huge liners
waiting on the Yangtze estuary.
Only Marines on Decks.
All had been forced below, and only
stalwart Marines remained on the
upper decks of the tenders, guarding
the human cargo that was Drawing
death to live.
Entire areas around the city were
blazing from fires started bv the
bursting shells that continually
pounded into the Chinese and Japa-
nese lines.
The japanese held area northeast of
shanghai on the Whangpoo water
front was fired; the rising wind whip
pea the elllowing smoke into grotesque
shapes.
The wind was tanning the flames
OF burning buildings along an s-mile
front, including the entire Japanese
area from Chapel to the northwest
eastward to the Whangpoo. Scores of
the fires in the Hongkew sector of the
International Settlement seemed
huge.
One Chinese raiding plane was shot
down in a foray against the Japanese
headquarters in Hongkew. The flyer
Owed within a few hundred feet Of
the headquarters, dropped his load
OF bombs and then crashed.
Flames Break Out.
Flames Immediately broke out all
over the surrounding area.
-Four shells struck the settlement
Wardroad Jail containing several
thousand prisoners and killing an