CHINESE TENACITY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 55, 2 September 1937, Page 9

CHINESE TENACITY

GENERAL'S TRIBUTE

SHORTAGE OF COFFINS IN

SHANGHAI

(Received September 2, 11.15 a.m.)

SHANGHAI, September 1.

"They went to their death as if returning Rome," said the Christian General Feng Yu-Jfsiang, describing the tenacity With which the Chinese defended themselves on the Whangpoo front. "Their morale was magnificent. A whole battalion was wiped out to a man while trying to hold their positions." • While the Chinese defenders of the North Station were defying a powerful onslaught, those near the mouth of the Whangpoo River launched a counter-offensive in the hope of recapturing the Woosung forts. Meanwhile, owing to the heavy death-roll, there is a coffin famine in . Shanghai. Despite the fact that carpenters are working overtime, they are . unable to meet the 'demand. Though all are awfire of the importance attached by the Chinese to- having proper coffins for tim^erment, many of i the dead perforce have been buried in a common grave. . . * Shrapnel several times struck the British warships Danae and Falmouth. There were no casualties, but the decks were damaged. The Japanese lost one aeroplane in the course of an air raifl on Canton on August 31 and shot down three.