JAPAN’S ACTIVITIES

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3646, 15 February 1932, Page 5

JAPAN’S ACTIVITIES

Crowding on Shanghai LANDING OF MANY TROOPS TRANSPORTS IN SETTLEMENT MOOR AT THE WHARVES SLAUGHTER IN THE SNOW HEAVY FIGHTING CHINESE BEATEN BACK PROTEST TO THE LEAGUE By Telegraph—Press Assn —Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (.Receivejd Feb. 15, 10 a.m.) Shanghai, February 14. Alter dropping '2OOO men in the vicinity of Woosung last night the Japanese Ninth Division entened the Whongpoo river and the s bip.s moored at. the- Japanese wharves in the International Settlement. The remainder of the troops will bo landed this morning. They are under the command of Lieut-General l Vila , one of the most famous Japanese military officers. FIGHTING TX THE: SNOW To-dav’s fighting was severe. Tho Woosung territory is a quagmire this yltcruoim. The battle was fought in a snowfall. A STRONG PROTEST BOMBING A REFUGEE CAMP Geneva, February 13.

Sir Hope Simpson, director of the National Flood Relief Commission, telegraphed the League Secretariat protesting in the name of humanity against the Japanese air bombardment on February 5 of a refugee camp containing 8000, killing one woman and a boy and wounding lour. Several patients also died of fright. The camp was again bombed o‘*n February 6 and 7. resulting in more deaths. The action was described as wanton. inhuman and militarily useless.