Chinese Bring 75 mm. Guns Into Action

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 February 1932, Page 7

Chinese Bring 75 mm. Guns Into Action

DEFENDERS SHELUNG JAPANESE.

WOOSUN6 POETS STILL HOLDING OUT

■San Francisco Press Broadcast. SHANGHAI, Feb. 17. Chinese troops brought ten "“seventy-five” guns of the World War period into action -against the Japanese • yesterday -in the Hong Kew area of the International Settlement. The ■ Japanese replied to the big gun attack, but neither side made any attempt to advance. The artillery fire died down shortly after midnight. The sound of the 75 millimetre pieces, and of trench mortars, echoed through the Settlement as the shells fell in the Japanese defence area. At eleven p.m. on Tuesday the bombardment was intense and several shells crashed near the Japanese Club and the Hong Kew Police station, hurling earth and stones high 'into the air. The Japanese fire started a -conflagration close to one of the Chinese batteries near the north -•station, centre of Chapei defence lines. The flames leaped up suddenly, casting a bright red light over the Chinese positions. Members of the Settlement volunteer corps, in observation posts north of the Settlement, saw the Chinese filing their artillery. A desultory bombardment also was renewed at the Woosung forts, down the Whangpoo river. “My men have decided to stick with me,” General Yung Chow Huan, the garrison com-

mander at AVoosung, said. “When AVoosung goes, we go with it.”