NORTH OF SHANGHAI

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 62, 10 September 1937, Page 9

NORTH OF SHANGHAI

ADVANCE IMPEDED

JAPANESE ATTEMPTS

TIMBER YARD BLAZE

RESULT OF CHINESE BOMBS

United Press Association—By Electric Tele.

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(Received September 10, 1.10 p.m.)

SHANGHAI, September 9.

The Japanese are still unable to advance to the north, despite continuous attempts, and were driven back from the Jukong Wharf, which hitherto they held for a week, until the naval guns forced pursuing Chinese to shelter behind the embankment of the military road.

Chinese aeroplanes diving down shortly after midnight on Japanese warships in an effort to blow them up dropped bombs which set fire to die America-China Company's yards. Members of the foreign "suicide squad" fire brigade immediately responded and fought the blaze, but the yards were burnt out. The damage is estimated at half a million dollars.

The Japanese again bombed Swatow, killing many Chinese, resulting in the British Consul, appealing for help. The British destroyer Thracian is going to Swatow. CHINESE DEFEAT AT NANKOW PASS. The Japanese report that, pursuing Chinese forces, they defeated them at the Nankow Pgss and are now within 35 miles of Tatung. They also occupied Tienchen, 60 miles south of Kalgan. ■

Meanwhile the Yellow River is overflowing, and this has interrupted the Chinese communications between the Hopei front and the rear, putting the important aerodrome at Tengchow out of action and rendering the transportation of war material impossible. The Domei news agency reports that a hundred Russian motor-lorries laden with aeroplanes arrived at Sianfu, where a dozen Soviet aviators are arriving to train Chinese airmen.