BIG DRIVE EXPECTED
SEQUEL TO CURTAIN-RAISER
JAPANESE RETAIN WOOSUNG
FORTS
(Received September 2, I p.m.)
SHANGHAI, September 1. After severe fighting today which the Japanese describe as only-a cur-tain-raiser, another big Japanese drive is expected tomorrow morning. The barricades of the International Settlement have been strengthened.
The Chinese failed today to regain the Woosung forts, but fought heroically.' It is reported that they have suffered 1300 killed in two days. The Japanese admit that a hundred were killed today. Simultaneously/the Japanese attacked the Chinese to the northward of the Foreign Settlement with a view to turning the flank and isolating the Chinese fighting at Woosung, but the position is unchanged. The Chinese deny that the Japanese have captured Paoshan. Another Japanese detachment landed today and occupied positions on the boundary of the Foreign Settlement.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19370902.2.63.3
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 55, 2 September 1937, Page 9
Word Count
134BIG DRIVE EXPECTED Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 55, 2 September 1937, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.