Evening star., 1937-08-15
Fighting Slows as
Typhoon Sweeps
Ravaged City.
AIR BASES HIT.
JAPANESE SAY
Foreign Casualties
in Plane Attack
Put at 40.
By the Associated Press.


SHANGHAI, August IS Sunday -
A Chinese typhoon today swallowed
the war horrors of Shanghai where
Chinese air bombs killed 1863 civilians,
including three Americans, and in
lured at least LAO in this teeming
international city.
Police of the international quarter
said 40 foreigners we're among the
dead, but that complete check had
not been completed.
japanese naval guns thundered spas
medically from ships anchored in
the Whangpoo River and machine
guns ratified an answer in isolated
sections
Otherwise blood-soaked peace settled
on the stricken city, heaped with
the broken bodies of bombing victims
and its hospitals crowded with suffer-
ing wounded.
Tension Appears Relieved.
Tension in the international quarter,
scene of the worst carnage in Satur-
days tragic aerial attack. seemed re-
lieved as heavy wind and rain swept
IN from the sea. Extremely poor Wis
ibility seemed to allay fears of any
immediate renewal of action by either
eontending Chinese or Japanese air
forces
Japanese sources declared the island
empires naval hombers had penetrat-
ed into the interior behind Shanghai
and DESTROYED al least 40 Chinese
planes al aircraft bases The Japan
ese reported they had effected the
destruction of the two Chinese bomb
ers blamed for the lethal attack on
Shanghai's foreign section.
The Chinese bombs fell into the
city Of 3,500,0oO persons when the
airmen missed their japanese varship
target anchored near the japanese
concession.
Inquiry Reported Under Way.
Chinese sources said Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek, strong man of the
Marking regime, was conducting
strict inquiry into the bombing. These
sources said that Japanese anti-air-
craft bullets striking bomb racks of
the loW-1ylng planes released the
projectiles prematurely.
Whatever the cause Of the attack.
two or more Americans were
wounded in a Shanghai Saturday of
suffering that drove scores of others
from their homes. Ever one of the
1000 Americans in the bleeding in
ternational community was in grave
peril.
Destruction spread through Shang-
hal as Sunday dawn approached At
230 am. l:30 pm. Saturday, E. S.
to, machine guns were chattering
fiercely along the land battlefront
on Shanghais northern fringe and
big guns of japanese Warships on the
Whangpoo River fired steadily at
land targets.
Fires Increasing in Chapel.
Fires were increasing. noticeably in
Eastern Chapel, Chinese section, and
apparently were eating into northern
parts of the Interna tional Settlement.
The Americans were drawn into the
tragic vortex of the undeclared vet
undlsguSed Chinese-Jap war
when the Warblrds of the Chinese gov
ernnent, aroused at long last, struck
back at the Japanese foe.
Three recklessly- dropped Chinese
bombs plunged into densely packed
street intersections of ShanghaIs for
elgn areas. Apparently they were
aimed from high aloft in a heavy,
murky sky. at japanese warships on
the nearby Whangpoo River or JAP
anese land concentrations.
But the victims of the resulting
holocausts were mostly innocent Chi
nese civilians. Many other foreigners,
besides the Americans, were killed or
wounded.
Great buildings, including two IA
nous hotels, were shattered. Mounds
OF dead Uttered the pavements.
The American dead we're DR.. Frank
j. Rawlinson, IS years missionary
leader in China; H. S. Honigsberg,
wealthy motor car dealer who had
made Shanghai his home more than
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