STRONG DEFENCE
SLIGHT WITHDRAWAL
YANGTZEPOO SECTOR
FIGHT TO REGAM PAOSHAN
(Received September 7, 11.45 a.m.) SHANGHAI, September 6. The Chinese, though slightly withdrawing in the Yangtzepoo sector, have maintained the integrity of their'defences on all the other fronts. Despite the Japanese position from Yajigtiepoo to Woosung erupting volleys from machine-guns, trench mortars, and light and heavy artillery, the Chinese frustrated fresh Japanese attempts to land at Liuho, Yangtzepoo, and Hongchew. At Shanghai Japanese aeroplanes j dropped a hundred bombs in the civic centre. The present operations are directed at China's weakest link, the Yangtzepoo, whence troops have been withdrawn to strengthen the Lotien and Woosung sectors. The Chinese official news agency admitted a partial retirement for the purpose of defending the university in the Woosung sector and to prevent the Japanese forces making a junction. Chinese snipers' wounded the commander and the engineer-captain of the Japanese warship Idzumo. The Chinese admit the loss of the walled city of Paoshan, and are fiercely counter-attacking. They claim to have encircled the Japanese at Woosung.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 59, 7 September 1937, Page 11
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172STRONG DEFENCE Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 59, 7 September 1937, Page 11
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