New York, Sept. 1.
Following a conference to-day with esident Roosevelt, Mr. Robert Hea Bombardment of Chinese Front Near Yangtze River: Fighting Around Woosung EAR and far Chinese areas to the north-west of Shanghai suffered land.and air bombardments from sunset onwards yesterday. Near sundown three Japanese planes circled over Markham Road junction area, dropped into close formation 1,000 foot power dives, left three spouts of smoke and debris below and wheeled for home.
One hit turned a building into a tower of flame.
In the early darkness a lone plane patrolled the outer Chinese area, dropping many brilliant Bingham, United States Ambassador greenish-white flares which powerful binoculars revealed to Great Britain, said they dis; footing downward below scarlet parachutes. They were a rig oan eeviern ulla io some signals for distant batteries of heavy artillery, and shells extent" began falling which illuminated the horizon like lightning Asked whether the United States flashes and discharged with a roar as of distant thunder. and Britain contempigied {vinese The shelling ceased soon after nine o'clock. The plane sent ats Mr. Bingham replied that any}Some torch beam message and droned off southward. statement would have to come from State Department.
He did not believe, the Ambassador added, that war was minent in Europe, apart from the little later the chatter of machine-guns sounded around about the North Station and a few small calibre tracer shells flashed in a high are through the pitch darkness and landed somewhere in the railway environs.
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