JAPANESE PLANS

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 300, 15 September 1937, Page 6

JAPANESE PLANS

Chinese Resistance To Be Fully Tested

EVACUATED GROUND Invaders Consolidating 100 Square Miles (Received September 15, 1 a.m.) Shanghai, September 14. In preparation for what is believed will be the first real test of Chinese resistance, the Japanese are consolidating 100 square miles of territory evacuated by the Chinese. Interest at present centres on whether Japan will establish peace in the territory or wait till the Chinese have been pushd to the “Hindenburg line.’ ’ Japanese naval aeroplanes report that the Chinese retreat was orderly and genuinely strategic. The Japanese clgim to be within two miles to the north of the vital Shanghai-Nanking railway. There are immense fires in Kaingwan and the Japanese are keeping up a fierce barrage in the hope of trapping the Chinese as they retreat. Nanking reports that a squadron of Chinese bombers claim to have sunk a Japanese destroyer in Kwangchow Bay and also to have damaged two Japanese warships. A Tientsin message says the Japanese are battering the walled city of Tsangchow. They are overcoming transport difficulties in the quagmired countryside by using fast motorlaunches on the canals.