CROSSING OF CREEK
ENGINEERS LOSE HEAVILY
LONDON, November 2.
The Shanghai correspondent of the "Daily Te%2graph," describing Japanese crossings of Soochow Creek at several points, says that these were effected ui^der cover of an intensive artillery aqd aircraft, barrage, followed by a smiike screen. Engineers lost 90 per cen^i. of their, numbers while throwing bridges and' pontoons across the creek 4or the infhntry, who were largely mo*i;ed down by machine-gun fire. .' -■ ;
The Japc'Hftese, in ia, desperate effort to encircle {Shanghai,, cut off the main Chinese- fotj_e from the International Settlement.; '
Two mpriif liners, transporting additional Japanese troops, are proceeding to Shanghafij.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 9
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101CROSSING OF CREEK Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 9
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