The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-10
THREE IMPORTANT CHINESE VICTORIES
! and CHOLERA EPIDEMIC SET BACK JAPS
Japanese Admit
Inability to Split
Chinese Defenses
u. S. Missionaries Join in
!, Criticism of Evacuation
Demands

SHANGHAI, Sept. 10. (UP)-
An epidemic of cholera and i'm
portant Chinese victories on three
major fronts gave Japan a set
back today in her undeclared war
with China.
Cholera broke out among Japa-
nese troops in the Shanghai area,
leaving 20 dead and so in a dam
gerous condition.
Chinese blocked the Japanese
on three fronts and Japanese adj
mitted they were unable to split
the Chinese defenses in the mid
section along the vital Woosung
military highway.
Chinese also won one of the
heaviest artillery combats along
the Whangpoo river today.
Copyright, 1887, by United Press
SHANGHAI, Sept. 10. (UP)-
Inspired Chinese armies today
stopped dead in its tracks on
three fronts Japan's mighty mill
tary invasion of this additionally
i-pacifist nation.
The great Japanese offensive at
Shanghai, started five days ago,
withered under a series of mad
Chinese counter-attacks. A Japa-
nese army spokesman admitted it
might be 10 days or more before
it could be resumed as a major
operation.
In North China Gen. Kiyoshi
Katsuki's drive southwark along
TientSin-Nanking railway toward
Shantung province also ran into
stonewall Chinese resistance and
was changed into a defensive op-
Grafton.
The same was true southwest
of Peiping along the Peiping-
Hankow railway.
INVADERS SLOWED DOWN
ON A FOURTH FRONT
1t was only in the vital Peiping-
Suiyuan railway area, northwest
of Peiping, that the Japanese con-
tinued to roll forward-and even
there its movement was slow and
Chinese were prepared for a
mighty battle in northern Shansi
province.
There were indications that
Lieut.. Gen. Iwane Matsui, COM
manding the $4,000 Japanese
troops here, and Lieut.. Gen. Count
Juichi Terauchi, former imperial
war minister and supreme COM
mander of 100000 Nipponese SOL
diers in the north, were being
forced to revise their entire war
estimates.
Foreign military attaches be-
lieved that Japan's $4,000 troops
in this country may have to be
reinforced to a total of 100000
men---near the entire strength of
the Japanese regular army-be-
fore the ambitious plan of Nip
ponese conquest can be started to-
ward real fruition.
JAPS SAY CHINESE
GET SOVIET PLANES
Developments in the war dur
ing the past % hours included:
/. japanese insisted that Rus
sian Soviet military assistance to
China. following the agreement
between the Chinese communist
party and the Marking govern
ment and the signature of the
Chinese Russian non aggression
treaty, is increasing. They said
100 Soviet motor trucks had
reached Sian-Fu, capital of Shensi
province with dismantled airplanes
and other munitions. Japanese
war planes have bombed the SIAN
Flu airdrome repeatedly, it was re-
vealed, but were not able to de-
stroy Chinese planes there. The
Sian airdrome has been enlarged
and its defense batteries strength
ened. Soviet instructors are teach
ing Chinese filters.
U. S. MISSIONARIES FLAY
ROOSEVELT'S POLICY
2. American missionary groups
Joined business men of the Ameri-
can communities in denouncing
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's
evacuation policy and urged that
Washington afford the best pro-
lection it can for Americans who
must remain in China to protect
their homes and jobs. Hundreds
of American missionaries chung to
their posts in hospitals and schools
despite new appeals from U. S.
Ambassador Nelson T. Johnson
and his associates that they leave
China at once.
3. In Tokyo the new British
ambassador to Japan, Sir Alexan-
der l.. Craigie, presented his ere.
dentials to Emperor Hirohito and
prepared to exert new pressure to
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