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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 201, 25 August 1937, Page 7

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SHANGHAI SITUATION UNCHANGED. CHINESE STUBBORN RESISTANCE. (Received 12 noon.) SHANGHAI, August 24. Despite exchanges of bombing raids, anti-aircraft fire from Japanese warships and the landing of a certain number of Japanese reinforcements, nothing decisive has occurred on the Shanghai front. Though the Japanese claim to have repulsed sporadic attacks, it cannot yet be said that a major battle has commenced. The Chinese have not yielded ground to any appreciable extent. Their stubborn resistance is preventing the Japanese regulars, though supported by naval guns, from penetrating defensive lines. The ambitious Japanese onslaught north of the city has not progressed despite hours of fighting with the aid of recently-arrived reinforcements reputedly aggregating 54,000. The correspondent of the British United Press states that a small force of Japanese bayoneted a breach through the defence at Ruiho, south of the mouth of the Whangpoo. The Japanese claim another success at Woosung and are at present advancing on the Chapei power station. The Chinese assert that they wiped out a Japanese division which was landing at Woosung last night. The Japanese cruiser Idumo led off the attack at dawn by bombarding Pootung, where immense fires were soon raging in the Chinese warehouses. The Chinese artillery, from Kiangwan, started fresh fires in the rich Japanese business quarter of the •settlement. ~ i deny that any of their warships have been disabled. Their seaplanes again conducted a night raid on Nanking They claim to have repulsed 27 Chinese planes at the moutn ot the Whangpoo, shooting several down.