JAPANESE HELD UP
A SCOPE FOR THE CHINESE WITH HEAVY CASUALTIES BUT INVADERS PERSISTENT WILL SEND MORE TROOPS fAnst. and N.Z. Cabl«) (Reoived Fob. 15, 2 p.m.) Shanghai, Fehruaiiy 14. A:?Uv<l by a smoke screen laid by naval aeroplanes, 1500 Japanese troop s crossed Woosing creek by means of pontoons. Tlio Chinese report tha.t they r.o pnlsed them with machine guns. The Japanese came on hut were outflankad and out off by two ('hinose regiments. Tim enemies suffered a loss ol 1300 killed or captured. An additional 22.000 Japanese marines will he disembarked by tomorrow.
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Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3646, 15 February 1932, Page 8
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