CHINESE TANKS.

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

CHINESE TANKS.

FIRST TIME USED. ■'» Brisk Artillery Exchanges At Shanghai. FURIOUS FIGHTING. (By Telegraph.—Press Association ) WELLINGTON, this day. The following cablegram has been received from Nanking by x the .•Chinese Consul, Mr. Wang Feng:— A brisk artillery battle took place at Woosung this morning between Chinese shore batteries and Japanese warships along the coast, the Japanese objective being to land reinforcements. The Japanese report claiming that 50,000 troops were landed at various Points in the vicinity of Shanghai is ridiculed. Chinese military circles have stated that all attempted landings of Japanese troops have hitherto been frustrated. ?)■; In North China Chinese troops are advancing on Yangliuching, 20 kilometres south-west of Tientsin. A severe en g a gement occurred at a point northward of Chinghai. Casualties are |j. reported to be heavy on both sides. &L. Chinese Government to-day issued an order to military authorities that war prisoners be well treated. Ominous tension continues at Tsingtao with Japanese completing the evacuation of women and children. Furious fighting continued in the •astern district of Shanghai as Chinese a' to drive back Japanese to the river. Chinese tanks were used for the first time.