Fighting Continued All Night

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6774, 4 February 1932, Page 7

Fighting Continued All Night

Jap Batteries Break Chinese Defences FEVERISH MILITARY ACTIVITIES AT NANKING. United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Wednesday, 9.45 p.m. SHANGHAI, Feb. 3. Fighting continued intermittently all night. The Japanese naval and field batteries shelled and broke the Chinese posit inns in front of the North railway station. There were heavy casualties on both sides. The sharp crackle of machine-gun fire and rifles in the Hong Kew district terrified the residents. When additional troops and naval vessels are here the total available foreign forces will be approximately 17,000 British, French, American and Italian regulars with volunteer corps. Nanking is comparatively quiet, but feverish military activities are progressing. Very few firms are operating, all the available men having joined the volunteer corps. The banks are functioning for a half-day only owing to depleted staffs. All the Chinese business houses are closed. Censorship Closes Down on News San Francisco Press Broadcast. LONDON, Feb. 3. The Great Northern Cable Company announced at 1 o’clock this afternoon that a censorship has been imposed on cable dispatches from China. Italian Troops and Ships ORDERED TO SHANGHAI. t ROME, Feb. 2. The cruiser Trento and the destroyer Espero have been ordered to Shanghai with Italian troops. NO CUT IN U.S. ARMAMENTS. San Francisco Press Broadcast. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. The opening of the Geneva Disarmament Conference at a time when the Far East is torn by the Sino-Japanese embroilment, was met to-day by a demand in Congress for increasing both America’s aerial and naval defences. The failure of international treaties to prevent the Sino-Japanese outbreak served to consolidate support for the campaign. There was a growing sentiment toward rejecting any compact which might further slash America’s first lines of defence, the navy or air forces, regardless of concessions made by other nations. Embargo on Munitions Received Wednesday, 9.30 p.m. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. In the House of Representatives a resolution was introduced empowering the President or Congress to ban the Shipment of arms and munitions to warring countries. Foodstuffs and other commodities would be exempted from the embargo.