Japanese naval detachments suc cessfully repulsed Chinese attacks fon the "Tokwa Bosoki Spinning Mill along the northern edge of the Yangtszepoo settlement border carly yes~ terday morning, the spokesman for the Japanese Embassy announced.
According {0 Japanese naval sources, four" Chinese battalions Teunehed an_attack upon this sector, using howitzers and trench mortars, uns.
addition to rifles and machine
Tapanese naval artillery replied to this onslaught, causing the enemy to retreat at 420'o'clock in the morning, Japanese authorities declared.
Chinese aerial bombs dropped in the eastern end of Yangtszepoo and Ignited the Asiatic Petroleum Company installation at about 839 o'clock. yesterday morning.
This conflagration threatened the neighbouring Standard-Vacuum plant, According to. the spokesman, who further asserted that vigorous re~ presentations were being made by the American authorities against the al-egod Chinese attempt to bomb the Shanghai Power Company's plant at Yanglszepoo, Several bombs, the spokesman alleged, hud fallen near the generating plant.
Japanese aircraft yesterday bombed Yochow and Chuchow, the latter 20 miles north of Nanking on the Tientsin-Pukow railway. Airfields were the Japanese objectives. the spokesman stated, Yesterday afternoon, Japanese aircraft had again bombed Chinese artillery positions in Chapel.
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