Evening star., 1937-09-26
RELATIVE OF HIROHITO
is REPORTED WOUNDED
Invaders Planes Spread Destruc.
tion in Central and Southern
Cities in China.
BACKGROUND

etg7ers Dere t0arned Japan Uould
not be responsible for their safety.
Last ioeek japanese planes bombed
Canton, Marking and halt dozen
other central and coastal Chinese
cities, killing and wounding thou
sands. despite repeated protests of
po,Uers.
By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, September rs (Sun-
day. japanese infantry launched
fierce drives today along a 40-mile
front from Lotien, north of Shanghai,
to the devastated Kiangwan civic
center on it's outskirts.
prince Hiroyoshi Fushimi, COM
mlander of Japanese destroyer
flotilla, was reported in Toxic to
have been slightly wounded in
fighting near the Shanghai water
front. The prince is the eldest
son Of Prince Hiroyasu Fushimi,
a cousin of Emperor Hirohito)
The new japanese offensive ended
a weeks hull during which heavy
rain prevented infantry action. Firm
ly entrenched Chinese troops counter
attacked, forcing the Japanese to
throw newly landed reinforcements
into the fighting. Chinese sources
declared that the defense lines. al
though sorely pressed, remained in
tact.
The japanese brought into action
the heaviest artillery they have yet
unlimbered on the Shanghai front
in a combined barrage with air bomb
ers and naval guns.
Foodstuffs' Removal Allowed.
For the first time since the unde-
clared war began, the japanese per-
mitted the removal of foodstuffs and
other merchandise from Japanese-oc-
cupied areas of the International
Settlement. They had insisted until
now that the warehouses remain locked
to prevent any possibility of food or
material reaching the Chinese Army.
Hundreds of motor trucks brought
out more than $4,000 worth of Ameri-
can and other foreign merchandise
including medicines The heavy file
Of trucks caused a serious traffic jam.
At the peak Of the congestion Japa-
nese bluejackets opened rifle fire
among the trucks on what they said
was a Chinese spy who eluded them
by diving into the Whangpoo River.
Great Chinese Cities Devastated.
China's greatest cities, except those
under japanese occupation, were sub
iected yesterday to devastating bomb
ing by the japanese air forces, rang
ing over nearly all the eastern
provinces of this invaded land.
Hundreds Of Chinese combat
ants died Property damage ran into
millions of dollars. Terror and anguish
ruled half dozen great communities
with populations approaching or pass
ing the million mark.
Nanking, the capital, was punished
by five successive waves of Japanese
air raiders, who remained over the
city a total of seven hours. Officials
said the death toll in the bombings,
part of Japan's announced campaign
to destroy the center of Chinese mill
tary resistance, would approach 200
Wuhan Area Raided Anew.
Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang,
the Wuhan cities of the middle
Yangtze Valley, suffered new series
of early morning raids, within few
hours of the terrible air attack the
Japanese airmen made on these same
cities, comprising q great commercial
center, late Friday.
Chinese officials revised their esti-
mates of the dead in Fridays Wuhan
raid upward to nearly 1000 and said
more casualties had been added when
enemy planes again attacked Hankow,
$50 airline miles from the coast, before
dawn.
Nanchang capital of Kiangsi Prov
ince and Chinese aviation center, was
heavily bombed, and Canton, the great
metropolis of the South, was subjected
to series of minor raids.
Late last night the Chinese air force
StA uCA UdNh Will n AdlA OAA Vic Jap
anese air field in Yangtzepoo, at the
eastern end of Shanghai's Interna-
tional Settlement. The attack was
made in heavy darkness, before the
moon rose.
In the North China campaign, jap
anese army spokesmen declared the
columns which Friday captured Pao-
tingfu and Tsangchow, key points Of
the main Chinese defense system
across Central Hopeh, were co-solidat-
ing their positions preparatory to
fresh advances.
Down the Peiping -Hankow Railway
q vanguard was marching on Thigh
sien, lis miles from Peiping, and the
Japanese hoped to reach the Yellow
River before snow falls.
In the Far Northwest the Japanese
claimed an important victory in the
capture of Pingtichuan, gateway to
Eastern Suiyuan Province and only
IS miles northeast of Kweisui, the
provincial capital.
Chinese forces driven from Tsang-
chow were reported retreating rapidly
southwark along the Tientsin- Pukow
Railway toward Shantung Province
and military authorities here believed
the way was opened for a Japanese
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