The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-03
CHINESE OVERWHELM
$4,000 JAPANESE
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city today.
JAP BOMBS DROP CLOSE
TO u. S. MARINES

TO ". S. MARINES
japanese bombers, in supreme
effort to rout the Chinese snipers
and guerilla bands before the
"big push" collapsed, roared over
the native quarters perilously
close to the international settle
ment, dropping bombs within a
few yards of U. S. marines sta
toned at sandbag barricades
along the fringe of the foreign
section.
More than 100000 Chinese
were engaged against 10000 Jap
anese in the fiercest hand-to-hand
fighting of the Shanghai war,
along a zone stretching between
the Hongkew section of the city
and the Woosung forts.
Thousands of Americans and
other foreigners were in grave
danger as the fighting surged to
within a few hundred yards Of
the settlement.
All cable communications be-
tween Shanghai and Woosung
were cut-whether accidentally
or Intentionally it was impossible
to tell-and repair crews were
sent down the Whangpoo river to
repair them.
Fighting with inspired courage,
the Chinese-far outnumberlng
the highly trained little japanese
troops, but woefully inferior in
every kind of military equipment
drove wedge after wedge into
the japanese line over a 2O-mile
front.
ON SHANGHAI FRONT
Overwhelmed by the greater
number of the Chinese, the Jap
anese appeared to be on the de-
fensive in every sector of the
Shanghai front. They still assert
ed that their lines were being
consolidated for their great
drive" and indicated that it might
start at any moment.
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek,
Marking dictator, was reported
personally in charge of the STRAIT
egy for the offensive and had
thrown his Central government
divisions back into the combat.
Chinese frightened their censor.
ship as the fighting grew and
American correspondents mere
had some of their messages cut.
The Japanese continued to hold
the strategic town of Lotlen'
about Ia miles northwest Of the
International settlement on the
military highway leading to Liu-
no, on the Yangtse river.
Chinese held the equally I'M
portant town of Hating, a few
miles southwest of Lotien, which
the Japanese must capture before
they can reach their objective
the Nanziang railway station,
where they hope to cut the Chi
nese line of communications be-
tween Shanghai and Marking.
The Chinese also continued to
hold the town of Paoshan on the
Yangtse river just northwest OF
Woosung, which was captured
earlier this week by the Japan
csc. But their garrison there was
surrounded and Japanese war
ships in the Yangtse were pour
ing a hail of high explosives upon
it.
Other developments of the past
"a hours included:
l. In Tokyo Foreign Minister
Koki Hirota told foreign CORE
spondents Japan is prepared to
bomb the British-owned Kowloon-
Canton railway, connecting Brit
aims rich Hongkong crown colony
and the South China city of Can
ton, if it is used for military pur-
poses.
2. A group of $50 Americans,
mostly missionary families, stub
bornly refused to abandon cot
tages in the summer resort of
Mokanshan.
3. Rear Admiral Harry Var
nell, commanding the U. S. Asiat-
ic squadron, announced that
American vessels in the Shanghai
area will be escorted by at least
one U. S. warship. He said no es-
cort was provided for the Presi-
dent Hoover, bombed by Chinese
military planes, because she was
clearly marked and both Chinese
and japanese had been notified
that she was entering the zone
of hostilities.
quotas; production of harvesting
machines was 1912 per cent below
and of locomotives 90 per cent.
Pravada in June asserted that