The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-20

lover the newly covered bombholes away from the waterfront to safety.
 The bombs dropped at intervals of Q few moments, their terrific ex- plosions shook the buildings of the central district and added to the panic.
 Observers on watch towers be- lieved the bombs were falling along the Woosung road.
 Cruisers Siren Sounded
 As Q lookout on the United States Cruiser Augusta, rnoored of the waterfront, sighted the Chinese planes approaching, the great siren of the cruiser sounded to warn Sail- ofs on exposed decks to take cover.
 American marines and volunteers, on the waterfront, began erecting sand bag barricades as shelters from fragments.
 Great fires were burning in the Hongkew area from this and an earlier Chinese raid, and matching fires burned across the river in the Pootung area after three Japanese bombers sept across there, drop- ping death.
 It was difficult ct time to follow the course of planes because of the great clouds of smoke.
 Japanese planes late this after noon were called out to lombard the Kungping which runs from Chinese suburbs down into the cen- tral part of the Hongkew district.
 Had Cleared Area
 The Japanese only few hours before had cleared this area of stubborn, audacious Chinese regu- lars fighting as guerrillas, who pen- etrated the area and sniped Jap- anese. The new bombardment show cd that the Chinese had again pen- etrated the area.
 Japanese naval authorities .de- clared martial law in the area be- cause of the persistent, dangerous penetration of the guerrillas. Arn- ored cars were sent to patrol the streets and picked squads of Jap- ancse bluejackets began e house to house attack on the sniperS.
 The biggest fires since the ehang- hai battle started were blazing in the East HongkeW district.
 Great clouds of black smoke were rising from Q series of blazes ex- tending Q quarter of Q mile involving tobacco warehouses, ship chandlers shops, cabarets and seamen's clubs
 A separate big fire ragged east of the Ward road jail, and 1t waa reported that a trench mortar shell struck the jail.
 Danger of Complications
 Danger Of complications that would affect foreign nations, includ- ing the United States, became seri- ous.
 United States and other foreign naval authorities, 1t was learned rejected Q Chinese demand that they withdraw their warships from the Shanghai reaches of the Whang- poo river and take them five miles down the river, or else make all Japanese Warships leave the area
 This meant that the Chinese iTi- tended to start an airplane bombing campaign of the river, in which are the United States cruiser Aug usta and the destroyers Edsall and Parrott.
 Alarmed at the prospect of e terrible bombing such as that by Chinese planes last Saturday, Bet- tlement authorities began clearing the water front of all civilians.
 In ominous augury of renewed aerial activity, audacious Chinese aviatorS, praying the pig squadroill of Japanase fighting planes and bomberS quatered down the river flew over the city and bombed Jap- anese areas.
 Trench MOrtaFS Busy
 Chinese trench iIlortars dropped their deadly shells into the Hong- kew area during the night from the north railroad station neighbor- hood.
 Eight hundred American women and children were taken down the river in Q tender, under escort ot the destroyerg Edseii and Parrott, to board the liner President Hoov- CT for Manila.
 As the destToyers waited for the refugees to board the tender, their crews watched Japanese wArshcps, periiously near, turn their anti.eir- craft and machine guns st Chinese bombing planes that sought to
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