HEAVY RAIN SETS IN

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 9

HEAVY RAIN SETS IN

JAPANESE OBSTRUCTED

ALli-NIGHT BARRAGE

MAr BE PRELUDE TO MASS

ATTACK

United Press Association—By Electric Telo-

eraph—Copyright.

(Receded November 3, 12.10 p.m.) ■ SHANGHAI, November 2.

Heav£ rain is favouring the, Chinese defenders of the Soochow Creek positions. rQhe water is rising rapidly, obstructing Japanese attempts to, consolidate thiflir advance.

The Chinese are raking with machirav-gun fire Japanese engineers who aneji attempting to build a bridge across pie creek strong enough to carry fa>nks and other mechanised units. Japaq ese artillery maintained an all-nighi barrage which is believed to be a pri;lude to a mass infantry attack designed to complete the . encirclement of Shanghai. It i^ announced that planes dropped! 2526 bombs on the Chinese lines aiid bases in the past three days.' The Ncjrth Lancashire Regiment hasreplaced fthe Ulster Rifles in guarding the Western sector of the International Settlemejnt. Japanese planes are taking greater care not to drop bombs near the»ißritish outposts, though they are intensively raiding -the Chinese lines. ■''■-.