The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-24

All the way rom Shanghal to the rivers mouth battle ragged that told of the approaching climax of the war between Japanese, rein forced now by 60,000 army regulars, and the pick of the Chinese army.
 The tender was making its way to the Dolalr Liner President Pierce, waiting to sail for Manila.
 Chinese Resist Fiercely
 Along the lower reaches of the Whangpoo and at the mouth of the Yangt2e, Chinese were resisting fiercely and apparently with some success - the shock units of the Japanese army that sought first to consolidate their landing areas, then to break up the Chinese army and annihilate 1t piecemeal.
 All about the international settle- ment proper there was an inferno of fire that rocked buildings. Air planes bombing areas only 6 few hundred yards away from the crowd- ed streets brought monetary fear of catastrophe such as that of yesterday, when hundreds of people how many hundreds was not known even now and probably never will be-were killed by an airpiane bomb that plunged into the Nan- king road.
 Saved from Disaster
 How much greater yesterdays 8 tragedy might have been became apparent only today. British, Ameri- can and Japanese gunnery experts after examining bomb that struck the roof of the United Sates navy storehouse and crashed down through three stories said that had 1t exploded 1t would have meant a disaster greater than any during the battle for Shanghai.
 They determined that 1t was an aerial bomb nearly four feet long and weighing approximately 1000 pounds. It was of identical origin, they said, with the bomb that dropped in the Nanking road, though apparently larger. That the bomb which struck the store house did not explode was attributed to the likelihood that 1t was old and had bene in storage for a long time. Its cap was ignited but two conductors leading into the inner part did not do their work.
 Bomb Dropper Known
 Whether Chinese or Japanese dropped the bombs, and in what circumstances the bombs fell, was not established. Japanese continued to insist first that they had no planes flying near the settlement at the time and secondly hat their aviators had orders not to fly over the settlement when carrying bombs.
 These same Japanese sources in- sisted that Chinese plane was flying over the settlement at 12,000 feet altitude when the bombs struck.
 Meager as they were, reports of and at the mouth of the Yangtze the fighting oown the Whangpoo showed that 1t was on Q big scale and of @ ferocity even greater than that which mas been raging on the fringe of the Hongkew area here.
 Half Dozen Landing Spots
 The Japanese troops, arrived from Tokio, had established half Q dozen landing places with success. But every yard they sought to ad- vance, preparing for Q union of their forces and coordinated drive in toward Shanghai, was resisted stoutly.
 Japanese sources asserted that the Japanese ct Woosung village, II miles down the Whangpoo from Shanghai, had made an advance of 2l miles along the Woosung- -shang- hal military highway and were get- ting within striking distance of the Chapel electric power plant out- side the city,
 The Chinese high command rushed endorsements to the Liuho sector, at the mouth of the Yangtze, after Q small body of Japanese troops, charging with bayonet and hand grenade, broke through the Chinese lines seven miles finland.
 In both the Woosung and Liuho areas, the Japanese hoped soon to be able to start real drives. Chinese Not Really Tested But Chinese reports which were discounted, indicated that the rec sistance of the Chinese regulars had not yet been really tested. It was asserted that one Japanese landing party had been wiped out near Woosung. Foreign warshipa passing Woosung on their way up river to Shanghai reported heavy fighting.
 Chinese sources-not overly reii- able-asserted that Chinese planes "disastrously" bombed the Japanese warships lying of the Woosung forts where the Whangpoo empties into the Yangtse mouth.
 One Chinese plane, however, was seen over the Woosung area bomb- ing the Japanese there.
 Fighting lulled somewhat in the Hongkew section of Shanghai and the north railroad station section northwest of it.
 Chinese Bodies Afloat
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