JAPANESE ACTION.
PARALYSES SHIPPING. CHINESE RAILWAYS NEXT STEP United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Gopvright. SHANGHAI, September 9. Two hours’ fighting at dusk east of the Yangtsepoo ending in the repulse at Lotien were the only overnight incidents. The contestants appear to be holding their main original positions. The Japanese have intensified their air operations from an aerodrome established near the University, paying special attention to the civic centre and arsenal at Kiangwan. Haying paralysed Chinese shipping, including the banning of night traffic on the Canton River, the Japanese are expected next to assail the Canton-Hankow railway, the main north-south link.
A Japanese destroyer stopped the British steamer Fooshung off Amoy, examined the papers and apologised. A Tokio message says that under the Emergency Shipping Control Bill, Japanese shipyards have cancelled contracts to build 17 vessels for the Soviet aggregating 18,600 tons.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13653, 10 September 1937, Page 5
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