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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 205, 31 July 1939, Page 9

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JAPANESE ACTION. SHANGHAI, July 30. The Japanese without warning have moved westward between North Creek and the North Station, encroaching on the British defence sector of. the Internatioiuvl Settlement. They have removed the British barricades and rebuilt their own 50 yards beyond the British post. The British forces retired, but later reoccupied their original blockhouse. The Japanese are not manning the new barricades', and consequently there are no signs of friction. They excused their action on the ground of health inspection of the Chinese in "no man's land." Thousands of Chinese fled panicstricken into the British area as the Japanese advanced. Meanwhile. Chinese guerrillas dynamited the Shanghai-Nanking railway 100 miles from Shanghai, cutting off Japanese communications between these cities. It is reported from Hong Kong that the Japanese have been driven off from the Wanginoon district (on the mainland nearly opposite Hong Kong) by forces under General Chang-Wai-ciiang. After shelling by Japanese ' warships further attempts by the ' Japanese to land were made, but all were repulsed.