Jap Army Division for Shanghai

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6773, 3 February 1932, Page 7

Jap Army Division for Shanghai

Snipers Busy in Brisk Engagement

Received Tuesday, 9.50 p.m. SHANGHAI, Feb. 2. Messages received to-day indicate that the Japanese Government is sending a whole army division to Shanghai to relieve the marines. Another attempt by snipers to reach the Japanese Consulate commenced at four this morning. A brisk engagement on the rooftops with the marines and police guarding the Consulate resulted in the snipers being driven off after an hour’s firing.

Curfew Brings Quiet to Shanghai MARTIAL LAW BECOMES EFFECTIVE. San Francisco Press Broadcast, SHANGHAI, Feb. 2. A series of disorderly outbreaks, including a burst of machine-gun bullets fired by a Japanese destroyer on an American-owned oil plant, and tho ripping down of a United States flag from an American mission school, was succeeded by an unfamiliar quiet which settled on Shanghai last night, when martial law became effective and lasted through the early hours of this morning. Tens of thousands of refugees and residents in tho International Settlement disappeared as if by magic at the 10 p.m. curfew hour. Only stcel-helmet-ecl police and soldiers, pacing the barbed wire barricades, remained abroad. Large detachments of Chinese troops, reported to havo left for various centres of Shanghai during the last few hours, were not heard from. Field guns, which thundered away over Chnpci early yesterday, wero stilled. Under the martial law regulations, no civilians were allowed in tho streets from 10 p.m. until 4 a.m. Officials of an American oil company protested to the American Consul-Gen-eral that a Japanese destroyer, steaming clown the Whangpoo, had spattered machine-gun bullets on their plant, The incident was carried to the Japanese authorities. Jap Machine Guns Busy Again San Francisco Press Broadcast. SHANGHAI, Feb. 2. Chinese snipers and Japanese ma-chine-gunners spattered streets in the Hong Kew section of the foreign settlement with bullets in renewed hostilities to-day. The rattle of gunfire broke a calm that came with martial law during the night.