AGGRESSIVE JAPAN

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3637, 4 February 1932, Page 7

AGGRESSIVE JAPAN

FIGHTING ALL NIGHT CHINESE DEFENCES BROKEN CAust. vnd N.Z. Cable) Shanghai, February 3. Fighting continued intermittently all night. The Japanese naval and field batteries shelled and broke the Chinese positions i,u front of the; North railway station. There were heavy casualties on both sides. The .sharp crpcklo -of mocKine-gim five and rifles in the Hong Kew t istriet terrified the residents. When additional troop s and naval vessels are hero the total available foreign forces will bo approximately 177000 British, French, American and Italian regulars with volunteer corps. Nanking is comparatively quiet, hut feverish military activities a.ro progressing. Very few firms are operating, all the available men having joined the volunteer corps. The hanks ar, t . functioning for a> half day only owing to depleted staffs. All the Chinese business houses are closed.