CHINESE COUNTER ATTACK FAILS AFTER SEVERE FIGHTING.
Shells Scream Over Shanghai Settlement.
Flames Light Up Scene of Horror and Bloodshed.
San Francisco Press Broadcast. SHANGHAI, Feb. 23
AH arms of Japan’s military might moved into the Kiangwan sector this morning, with the high command determined to shatter the Chinese stonewall defence that has baffled the invaders for 72 hours. From both flanks of the shell-shattered, fire-defiled village, in which still lurk Chinese machine-gunners, dug into the ..ground, the Japanese launched strong columns guided by airplanes, supported by rumbling tanks, and armoured cars, and backed by deadly 75’s. The assault got under way shortly •after an eight-hour Chinese bombardment directed across the International Settlement had subsided at dawn. . At 8.30 a.m. other squadrons of Japanese ’planes roared ■off into the west and bombed the Chinese aviation field at Hung -Jao, five miles west of the' French Concession, and five miles .south of the Kiangwan sector. General Uyeda decided to take no chances to-day. Reports, however nebulous, that the Chinese forces were preparing to meet’ Japan in the air could not be ignored at a time so critical. ** *
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 February 1932, Page 7
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