About 1,300 refugees left Shanghai yesterday for the north or south, 1,100 sailing on board the Butterfield Swire s. Suiyang for Canton, and a further 200 on board the Jardine's s. Lee Sang for Tsingtao and northern ports. The Butterfield & Swire s. Shuntien also loti yesterday for northern ports, The Butterfield Swire s, Shengking arrived yesterday evening from- Tsingtao and northern ports.
The Messageries Maritimes s. Chenonceux is expected to arrive in Shanghai from Europe next Wednes-engagement since the landing- of Japanese troops on August 23, again changed hands, according to a Chinese military spokesman at a press conference yesterday. The small village fifteen kilometres from Paoshan fell to Japanese troops on Friday.
From Lotien, enemy troops attempted to push southward in the direction of a village by the name of Siao-tang-tse. Their efforts ended in failure, however, the spokesman said.
South-east of Lotien, Chinese troops were occupying a line about 2,000 metres from the Lotien-Tachang highway, through the villages of Chinchiatsun and Chienwangche, according to the spokesman. One Japanese bomber operating in the vicinity of Peichutien, was brought down west of the place, he said.
East of Liuhang, Chinese troops were defending a line running through Tsaowangmiao and Yangmuchiao, Early on Friday morning, the Japanese succeeded in entering Yangmuchiao after a heavy bombardment but Chinese troops counter-attacked in the afternoon and regained the village. Later in the day, the Japanese came back with about 3,000 men, They were driven back after a head-on clash which lasted until night-fall, the spokesman said.
With the exception of an abortive attempt by the Japanese to push through Chinese positions in the vicinity of Chih Tse University, the Kiangwan and Chapei sectors remained quiet yesterday, the spokes~ man said.
The Japanese attack on the Chinese line was launched at about 11 am, yesterday. Chinese defenders counter-attacked, resulting in their pushing forward sbout 300 metres from their original' positions, the spokesman. said.
Early yesterday morning and on Friday evening, Chinese batteries again exchanged shots with Japanese naval vessels anchored along Yangtszepoo section, Japanese batteries heavily bombarded Chungshan Road and its vicinity throughout Friday and yesterday morning, No damage of military importance was done, according to the spokesman, Hungjao Aerodrome Raided At 530 pin. yesterday, four Japanese aeroplanes raided the Hungjao Aerodrome, Of seven bombs dropped, four landed in the field and three outside. No casualties were reported, he said, A letter to a Japanese pilot from his wife found in his possession after he crashed to death in an aerial combat at Tien Chang district on August 27 was reproduced in the "Shun Pao," a Chinese daily, together with pictures of the wife and her killed husband.
The writer of the letter expressed deep concern over the safety of her husband, saying that his mother was praying for him every day, She lamented the fact that "too many deaths" have been suffered by the air armada in Northern Formosa, Continuing in an anxious tone, the message conveyed the hope that the husband might emulate the example of another pilot who escaped death in a battle,
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