COMMUNICATIONS CUT
CHINA TO THE WEST
WOOSUNG FIGHTING
JAPANESE LINES PIERCED
(Received September 4, 1.20 a.m.)
SHANGHAI, September 3,
The Chinese report that the Japanese navy! has cut all the cable communications from China to the west, while Japanese bombers in the last few days have destroyed Tung Chi University at Woosung. \
The Chinese assert that their counterattacks pierced, the Japanese lines at five points and prevented the Japanese at Woosung effecting a junction with those at Lotien; also that they forced the Japanese to retire to the coast, while the Japanese attacks failed to penetrate the Chinese lines in the Chapei and Yangtzepoo sectors.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 57, 4 September 1937, Page 9
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105COMMUNICATIONS CUT Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 57, 4 September 1937, Page 9
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