The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-19

repulsed, and the broken Japanese lines in the Yangtsepoo-H Hongkew area restored, the war again spread to Nanking-China's national capi- tai up the Yangtse river from this city.
 Gen Chang Tse.C Chung, Chinese supreme commander for the shang- hal area, confirmed c Japanese re- port that Japanese bombing planes again had ralded the central capital during theday.
 Eight Jap Bombers
 Eight Japanese bombing planes participated in the attack, appear ing over Nanking ct l2:30 p. m. to- day." the general announced. They flew very high and dropped several bombs which missed our military air field by half c mile, One of the bombs hit c village and several people were wounded. We shot down one Japanese bomber ct Litsu and another ct Kwanteh."
 Japanese denied any of their planes were shot down and asserted their bombs exploded c big Chinese ammunition dump.
 The Japanese asserted that they were winning not only on ali sectors on the Shanghai front but also irl the north, adjacent to the sprawl ing Peiping- g-Tientsin area which their armies seized in the opera- tions starting the night of July [ when Chinese and Japanese detach- mentS clashed outside Peiping.
 "The rainfall which has made much of the north China plain c morass for the past week Is ceas- ing" Japanese communique ct Tientsin said, land our aerial op. erations on the northern sectors have been resumed. The situation everywhere b favorable"
 Chinese Lines Holding
 United Press correspondents on the spot, however, reported that the Chinese lines were holding fast northwest of Peiping along the Peiping. .suiyuan railway, southwest of that city on the Peiping- -Hankow railway, and south of Tientsin on the TientSin.Puk -Nanking rail- way.
 The Japanese moved hundreds oi trucks, scores of tanks, and several artillery regiments through Peipine yesterday, indicating an intensifica. ton of their northern operations.
 The roads still were muddy, how. ever, and transport was slow.
 Foreign military attaches esti. mated that there were from 90,00t to e0,000 Japanebe troops in North China, which, owing to their vastly superior equipment, were more thar ample to crush Chinese armies to. taiing roughly 100000 which are op. posing them.
 Tn shantung province, which h expected to be one of the next thea. tefs in the general war, Gen. Har Fu-Chu, the military governor, hat inobiiized his entire personal arm, Of ib0,000 men and reinforced 4 with thousands of coolieB impressed for transport and labor corps serv. ice.
 Had Five Divisions
 Ho had five divisions aroune Tsingtao, big port of the provincI between Shanghai and TientSin, tt resist landing Of Japanese army regiments there which he expected to Do attempted next week.
 A number of American mission. aries in the interior of the province clung stubbornly to their posts de. spite c new warning by Consul Johr Allison ct TsinansFu, the provincia capital, urging them to flee tt Tsingtao from whence foreigner were being evacuated.
 The number of Japanese arms units on duty on tho Shanghai from continued uncertain.
 British military Intelligence in. sisted that two full divisions, plus { mixed brigade, had arrved on trans. ports and that half of them hae been landed. Some Japanese con. frmed this; other denied 1t.
 This correspondent personally es. tablished that British reports tha, the Japanese army regiments wer. landing ct Liuho, ct tho mouth 0, the Yangtse, where they cami ashore during the Chinese -Japanesl war iTi 1882, were not correct.
 He made his way to Liuho be. hind the Chinese lines today, a times under . hail of Japenese maya artillery shells, and found Liuhs held by the Chinese who are strong ly entrenched.
 Dollar Liner Near
 The Dollar liner President Hoovel radioed tonight that she was off tn part and expected to reach thl mouth Of thf Whangpoo tomorrow with additional Q. 6. marines iron the Philippines to reinforce nor than 1000 American sec soldier saaug ca Aaaksf NanA