STEADY CANNONADE
SHANGHAI FRONT
CHINESE UNYIELDING
LONDON, September 7.
Desultory firing on the Shanghai front before daybreak developed into a steady cannonade, accompanied by Japanese air bombing of the Chinese in the Kiangwan and Yangtzqpoo sectors, but they did not succeed in spotting the Chinese batteries.
The intensity of the renewed bombardment suggests that the Chinese lines are not yielding, exceprt; in the vicinity of the Yangtzepoo sector.
A Chinese battalion heroically resisted for four days at Lotien. It was surrounded and ran out of food, and finally was wiped out. There were no survivors.
Japanese planes off Ningpo bombed and machine-gunned the Chinese Customs launches Haisui and Haitsing, commanded by Britons. One Chinese was killed and six wounded.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 60, 8 September 1937, Page 11
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119STEADY CANNONADE Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 60, 8 September 1937, Page 11
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