HEROIC CHINESE ABANDON “SUICIDE” POST

Southland Times, Issue 23345, 1 November 1937, Page 7

HEROIC CHINESE ABANDON “SUICIDE” POST

Shanghai Battle Halted By Rain FIVE BRITISH SOLDIERS KILLED BY JAPANESE SHELLS Hostility To Britain Evident In Tokyo (United Press Association —Telegraph Copyright) (Received October 31, 8.45 p.m.) LONDON, October 30.. Acting on the orders of the President (Marshal Chiang Kai-shek), who realized that its defence would not fulfil any military purpose, the remnant of the “suicide battalion’ abandoned the warehouse near the International Settlement at Shanghai before dawn. The defenders ran a gauntlet of enemy machine-guns and searchlights across twenty yards of bullet-swept road and entered a British post, where they laid down their arms. They were warmly shaken by the hand and cheered. The furious fighting on the borders of the settlement has died down because of bad weather. The Chinese continue to hold their lines. Rain has reduced flying to a minimum. Three men of the Ulster Rifles were killed and several were wounded, two fatally, by shells which fell in the western sector of the International Settlement during the new battle on Friday. The “Council on Current Affairs,” an unofficial Japanese body consisting of industrialists and members of the Lower House, passed a resolution appealing for a national movement to sever diplomatic relations with Britain, whom the manifesto accuses of failing to observe neutrality, pursuing an arrogant, insulting attitude to Japan, consistently assisting China and inspiring the Brussels conference. The movement is seeking to make articulate an undercurrent of hostility recently apparent.