SHANGHAI TRUCE

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3645, 13 February 1932, Page 5

SHANGHAI TRUCE

PREPARING FOR, BIG DRIVE DETERAHNED OFFENSIVE CHINESE MOVING VP (Austi. and N.Z Cable) Shanghai, Feb. 12. The Japanese and Chinese, fo,vet's, massed along a ragged twisting front from Chapei to the blackened Woo, .sung forts, some 18 miles down, the Whangpoo river, held, tlieir fire today in a last lull before tom TiieUreineni. of a, el in W tic phase oi tile 14-day battle for Shanghai. In the darkness, which concealed the battle line near Woostmg a.”d Paosb.au, the Japanese continued to entrench while Japanese military officials supervised the evacuation of Chinese peasant families leaving their homes in the- war zone. In Cliapei the clatter of gunfire was temporarily ended, pending n truce extending from 8 a.m. to noon, during which all civilians were to kt evacuated from the, danger area. When the truce is ended the Japanese will be ready lor their big drive to blast the Chinese from the Shanghai area, and the Chinese troops, reinforce] on Thursday by soldiers from half-a-dozen cities, will be prepared to meet the offensive.