The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-26
INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION
RlSKED BY JAPANESE WHEN
CHINESE COAST BLOCKADED
Chinese Report Two jap
Warships, Damaged, Are
Flying U. 5. Colors to
Avoid Attack
By II. R. EKINS
Copyright 1887 by United Press

SHANGHAI, Aug. 26. (UP).-
Japan risked international inter-
vention today by declaring a 700
mile blockade of the China coast
confined for the present to Chi
nese shipping and decricd by Chi.
nese as an attempt to starve into
submission 200,000,00O Chinese
non-combatants.
The announcement conceded
with the beginning of an intensi-
fled offensive of the Japanese
military machine on four fronts
which pierced deep into Chinese
territory under the fresh impetus
of newly-arrived soldiers with
modern equipment.
A major battle has been raging
since dawn north of the city along
line five miles inland from the
Yangtse river, where Japanese
soldiers had to fight for every
yard against entrenched Chinese
who sought to keep the invaders
from reaching Shanghai.
Losses on both sides we're large
The Japanese lost numerous COM
pany and battalion commanders.
CHINESE PLANES ARE
CUNNING JAP TROOPS
Chinese planes flew low and
machinegunned the Japanese.
One such plane was brought down
by japanese anti-aircraft fire
near Liuho.'
While Tokyo sought to assure
all foreign powers that the block
AIDE concerned only Chinese YES
sells, as asserted by Rear Admiral
Kiyoshi Hasegawa, in command
Of the Japanese third battle fleet
at Shanghai, observers considered
that the blockade obviously must
affect foreign shipping, much OF
which depends upon small Chi
nese boats to ferry cargoes from
deep water anchorages.
The blockade ranged from the
mouth of the Yangtze river,
north of Shanghai, to the impor-
tant port of Swallow on the south.
1t stopped significantly at Swa-
tow. just above Hong Kong,
which is a British port.
FOREIGN SHIPS WITH
ARMS NOT AFFECTED
In explaining the blockade,
Hasegawa said that foreign ships
would not be bothered even II
they carried arms.
Chinese shipping will be detain,,
ed but not seized, he said, ana
Japanese warships have been in
structed not to fire on or SINK
Chinese ships unless they ignore
orders to halt. :.
Some observers believed II
would be possible for the Chlnese
to circumvent the blockade, al
though at great cost and moon
venience, by using ports above
and below the limits laid down by
Japan and shipping cargoes over
land.
AMERICAN AREA
A mighty japanese offensive
was under way around the Anglo
American area of Shanghars IN
ternational settlement to the
north and west of which veteran
Japanese infantrymen had fought
their way with bayonets more
than 10 miles into Chinese terri
tory. ,,.
The Chinese resisted stubborn
ly on all fronts and at Nanking
the foreign office formally accus-
ed Japan of flying U. S. flags on
her warships off the mouth OF the
Yangtse to prevent Chinese arr
planes from bombing them.
In North China the japanese
apparently had won sweeping VIC
tories along the Peiping-Sulyuan
railway northwest of Pelplng anu
on the Peiping-Hankow railway
southwest of China's northerh
South of Tientsin japanese
mechanical regiments were hold
ing their own with difficulty on
the Tientsin- Pukow-Nanking rail-
way. .,.:
bravely," said Lieut.. Gen. kiyosnt
Katsuki, Japanese commander a.
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