Evening star., 1937-09-06
Shanghai
Continued From First PaQe)

passed unheeded by 100000 children,
the only ones who could find any SOL
ace in the undeclared war that made
school houses too hazardous for
classes.
For more than week heavy con-
centrations of Chinese have thWarted
the japanese effort to consolidate
their positions on the south bank of
the Yangtze and roll south.
At dawn today the big guns of the
japanese feet off Woosung thundered
out the signal for the advance. Land
batteries burst into action; huge fleets
of bombers roared into the air.
A Japanese spokesman said they
were attempting to form a junction
between the reinforcements landed in
the Woosung area and the Japanese
landing party holding the Yangtzepoo
section of the international sector.
Kiangwan Bears Brunt.
KiangWan, the center of the Chi
nese line, midway between Shanghai
proper and Woosung. bore the brunt
OF the Japanese attack.
First successes in the Woosung area
went to the japanese with the cap
ture OF the walled city OF Paoshan
Chinese said they were still in posi-
ton near the Woosung and Lion For
est forts, despite a concerted japanese
attack. Casualties on both sides were
mounting steadily.
japanese artillery in Yangtze 900
dueled with Chinese guns near Kiang-
wan. rocking Shanghai with the con-
tinuous reverberations. A score OF
Japanese planes bombed the 'front.'
line trenches and then sped inland to
harry concentration centers and ccm-
munication lines.
More than 200 Chinese non-com-
batants were killed or wounded by
japanese raids on the Jessfie!d Park
Station OF the Shanghai-Hangchow
railroad, on the western outskirts of
the city.
A Japanese spokesman described
the bombardment OF civilians as
mere routine work" which was being
intensified
Japanese Rejection Seen.
Little hope was seen of Japanese
acceptance of combined American,
British and French proposal to make
the Whangpoo area neutral zone.
Forecasting definite refusal, jap
anese embassy attaches said today ia
pan views the suggestion as inadequate
as the new positions to be taken up
by both sides would not preven. shells
from endangering both neutral war;
ships in the harbor and civilians in
the city.
Embassy officials said the proposal
was receiving the careful attention of
Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, the
japanese naval commander, who
would reply shortly.
The Central Chinese government. at
Marking has indicated it would be
agreeable to withdrawal from the
Pootung area across the Whangpoo
from the International Settlement,
provided it was assured Japanese
would take their warships down the
river and not attack during the with
drawal.
japanese Artillery Moves Up.
PEIPING, September s (P.-Japa-
nese heavy artillery was moved up
against strategic Machang today after
an attack swept clear the approaches
to the Chinese stronghold 80 miles
south of Tientsin.
japanese military authorities here
said the last Chinese outposts, a mile
or two north of the important railroad
city, had been driven in and two out
lying villages had been captured.
They declared their motorized artil-
lery was now within striking dis
tance of the Chinese lines and a bat
tie for control of the city was immi-
nent.
Mechang, on the Tientsin to Pukow
rail line, is the advance base of the
Chinese right flank in North China.
1t controls the only direct route from
North China to the capital of the
Central Government at Nanking.
Although the fronts southwest and
northwest Of Peiping were compare
lively quiet, there was every indica-
ton that large scale fighting could be
expected at any moment.
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