The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-16
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brought from Japan. A reliable Chinese informant said after visit to the Chinese positions, that at least 10000 Chinese regulars had arrived-half of them in the last 24 hours-and that immediately upon leaving the lines to relieve tired units and to prepare for 8 general offensive probably tomorrow morn ing.
 Six hundred miles north of Shanghai three Chinese-Japanese armies were battling - south of TientSin, southwest of Peiping. northwest of Peiping in the Nankow mountain pass.
 The battle here, had brought ruin, mutilation or death to un- counted thousands and was just beginning.
 Japanese Are Held
 Japanese had made no advance in 24 hours despite heavy artillery fire on the Chinese positions, and Chinese long range guns were fir- ing shrapnel, high explosive and incendiary shells on widely scattered Japanese objectives.
 Chinese asserted they captured the Japanese Navy club yesterday after a bitter fight and put Japa. nese losses at more than 200 killed. Their own losses they put at more than 20 killed.
 It was impossible for those in the fighting lines to concentrate entirely on military objectives be- cause the battle was being fought in the city. Yesterday, Japanese bluejackets began sniping at mem- bers of the foreign Shanghai vol- unteer corps on guard duty in the range road on the foreign settle ment border. Upon being in- formed, Japanese officers apologized and at once told their men that their targets were not Chinese.
 This morning brought good weather but no surcease.
 Jap Planes First Up
 Japanese planes were the first in the air. Two of them rose from the Whangpoo in the red sunrise beside the Idzumo, and as United Press correspondents watched be- gan circling over the city. They were looking for Chinese planes part of a threatened mass attack that was to start-but did not-at dawn, in compliance with the hope of the Chinese to "blast the Japa- nese out of Shanghai"
 People began crowding out along the river front to watch the planes They stepped over debris and shat tered glass from Saturdays Chi nese air bombardment, picking their way past decomposing bodies of Chinese, still lying there in the Nanking road.
 Artillery fire now was getting hotter all the time.
 More and more Japanese planes began flying overhead, coming from the aircraft carrier down river. One group of five, one of three, and several scattered planes. They were being directed by lightning like single scatter that flew far over them.
 Japanese Efficient
 The Japanese planes gave an efl- cient performance. They avoided the settlement area, flying south and north of it. They flew back and forth from east to west.
 Then they started bombing-the Lunghua airdrome at the southwest corner of the city, the Chinese lines in the Hongkew area, all round the town. They would dive low, unloose their bombs, and race of.
 At 11:30, the Japanese planes hav- ing gone, the Chinese began to fly over.
 Seven planes appeared suddenly over the cruiser IdZumo, there at the waterfront, and one dropped a bomb. The Idzumo's guns opened. Five Russians and nine Chinese were killed in the vicinity of the Japanese consulate. Two officials of the Japanese consular police were wounded in their headquar- ters in the consulate. Other bombs fbell near the north station and the Hongkew area.
 It appeared that Japanese anti aircraft fire was becoming deadlier. Though seven Chinese planes came over the city, neutral officials said that only three flew away, and it xuoc ha1iavnd the Iananaea dOwned