Japanese Claim Substantial Gains: Fourth Pill-box Falls After Heavy Bombardment Shapghai, Sept. 10.
TRACK and counter-attack through the early hours of yesterday morning provided the bitterest fighting of the present hostilities around Shanghai, as the Japanese pressed along the Woosung military highway.
While Chinese claims last night were that the whole engagement had ended with positions as before, substantial gains were announced in Japanese communiques.
'The capture of the fourth of the conerete pllisboxes slong. the' road, three. of" which had been taken earlier, was claimed at 420: p.m. yerterday' afternoon, following. a. day-Jong. bombardment from warships the Whangpoo, who. were estimated {to have used 300 shells on and around the pill-box before. the Japunese In fantry units rushed the position in'a- Japanese naval communique, the' claim was made. yesterday' that the capture of Chinese positions dur Ing the day tad enabled Japnnese toops tu Liuho to establish June tion with hele forees In Yanlszepo0 find Woouung.. Their positions, tt was idded, now extend for forty. miles, from the lower estuary of the {zo to the International Settlement, Via the Whangpoo River.
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