Terrible Havoc in Woosung Forts

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 February 1932, Page 7

Terrible Havoc in Woosung Forts

BUT CHINA’S FLAG STILL WAVES. CHINESE AIRMEN BUSY. New York Times Broadcast. SHANGHAI, Feb. 7. Three days of bombing and shelling have caused terrible havoc in the Woosung forts, but the red, blue and white flag of China still waves over their torn walls. Although at least four of the forts’ six-inch guns have been silenced and many of the rest are so antiquated that

they are useless, the Chinese garrison, is prepared with riH.es and machine-guns to resist any attempt to land Japanese troops. Already one landing attempt has been beaten off. After a comparatively quiet evening heavy Japanese field guns in the Hong Kew area opened up a violent bombard- ‘

’ ment just before midnight, augmenting the briskest machinegun fire that has been heard in the last twenty-four hourj^. Nightfall saw twenty-six Nanking bombing ’planes in Shanghai. All the Chinese fliers were trained in the United

States, Great- Britain and Germany. Assurances were given out that the Chinese ’planes would not carry bombs but would merely use machine-guns in pursuing Japanese bombers and would carefully avoid engaging the Japanese ’planes over the Settlement area.