The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-24
CHINESE WAGE
ASSAULT WHEN
FOE IS HALTED
Japanese Mass Offensive
Comes on Heels of H.
Hour Barrage
SHANGHAI'S FOOD
PROBLEM YET ACUTE

Copyright, 1897, United Pre.O
SHANGHAI, Sept. "a. (UP)--
The Japanese mass offensive was
stopped cold today on the Shang-
hal front by Chinese regulars.
Four hours Japanese artillery
pounded Chinese lines, smashed
houses and other defenses but the
Chinese lines held.
One Chinese army spokesman
said, "The japanese won't blast
us out with all the dynamite in
Japan"
After 14-hour steady barrage
the japanese raised their line Of
fire, tanks went over the top from
Japanese trenches and the infan-
try followed.
Chinese artillery then went in
to action and with the aid Of
trench mortars and machine guns
stopped the attack.
Chinese then counter attacked.
Late this afternoon the fighting
was still proceeding.
Chinese said their machine gun
nests and fighters of the "big
sword corps" had halted an ear
lier Japanese attack last night.
The spokesman said an entire
Japanese detachment of 300 men
was wiped out near the village of
Yaoche and that the Japanese
were suffering Every heavy losses
all along the Shanghai front"
Japanese air raids extended
from Canton, in South China, to
northern Shanghai and eastern
Suiyuan provinces in China's
northwest.
Chinese said 5000 civilians were
killed in raids on Canton. They
asserted that so japanese planes
which left Shanghai to bomb
Marking were driven back after
a battle over the Kiangyin forts,
northwest Of Shanghai on the
Yangtse river. The Japanese said
Chinese positions around kiang-
yin were bombed and that two Of
China's newest cruisers were hit.
The Chinese air force at Nam
king was reinforced, as were the
other defenses of the central cap
ital, against threatened Japanese
air attacks to destroy the city.
Military attaches here suggest
ed the new Chinese planes at
Marking might be from Canton
and that success Of the Japanese
air raid on the southern metropo-
lis might be attributed to weak
ening of its air force.
They believed the Japanese
knew that many Cantonese planes
had been sent to Marking and
that they staged their raid in the
south to force return Of these
ships to Canton which would
leave Marking open to a new at
tack.
Other developments of the last
"a hours included:
The Japanese continued their
offensive toward the Yellow river
along line south of the Peiping-
Tientsin railway but apparently
had not captured the main Chi
nese positions in the cities Of
Tsangchow and Paoting-fu. They
were in the suburbs of both cit
les, and their planes were bomb
ing all the Chinese lines of re-
treat as well as cities in Shan
tung province, where 1t was be-
lieved they hoped to force the
provincial government. General
Han Fu-chu, to declare his neu-
trality. -,
The cholera epidemic in Shang-
hal reached grave proportions.
Officials of the International set
Element appealed for outside help.
The food situation in the settle
ment also was acute. The munich
nal council announced yesterday
that il had "arrived at satisfac-
tory agreement with the japanese
authorities under which the set.
Element would obtain essential
foodstuffs from warehouses in
the areas north Of Soochow creek
INSIDE Japanese lines)." Later,
this announcement was cancelled,
indicating that new difficulties
bava arisen.