JAPANESE SETBACK.
ARTILLERY AID AWAITED.
ELABORATE TRENCH SYSTEM NOT NEGOTIABLE.
CHINESE GUNS EXTENSIVELY DAMAGE PROPERTY.
(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) SHANGHAI, Feb. 24. Kiangwan witnessed heavy fighting this morning. The Japanese advanced their lines a short distance, but met .a stubborn Chinese defence. The Japanese are retiring, and are awaiting an artillery bomhard- ’ ment to destroy the Chinese elaborate trench system before making further infantry attacks. • Chapei is quiet. It i s revealed that ■enormous damage was wrought by y es ‘ Jorday’s Chinese bombardment. Scarcely a house in the Dixwell Road and North Szechnen area escaped, where Whole terraces were destroyed. The havoc is only excelled by the ■Chapei ruins just across the boundary.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 February 1932, Page 5
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