Evening Star Newspaper, August 19, 1937, Page 3

JAPANESE CLAIM NANKON ADVANE 100,000 Estimated Thrown Into North China Fight by Tokio. B7 the Associated Press. TIENTSIN, August 19.—The Japa- nese command officially claimed to- dav its heavily reinforced North China army had battered its way § miles into strategic Nankow Pass, the gatesay to Mongolia. The Japanese armies were said to be fighting bitterly for each foot of ground, advancing from peak to peak and taking the fortified mountain po- aitions ridge by ridge. Almost 100,000 Japanese troops were estimated to have been thrown into the North China battle. Five Miles in Two Weeks. A concerted attack was under way Against the until now impregnable Chinese positions at the highest point of the 15-mile long pass. It has taken the Japanese almast two weeks to advance the first 5 miles. Troops have been pouring into North China from Japan and Man- chukun, Sixteen transport loads were landed off Takn Bar at Tientsin's ports and uncounted thousands of others have been arriving by troop train from Shanhaikwan, on the Manchukuo border The Japanese were threatened, however, on the east flank by a strong Chinese army advancing through Chahar Province north of the Great | (Wall, The Japanese command said | t was not worried by the Chinese | [maneuver, as the Japanese Kwantung | rmy had been pulled to the west from [Manchukuo to guard the flank com- fmunications. Complete Hopeh Domination. The Japanese have completed their omination of Northeastern Hopeh fProvince, with the key cities of Tien- sin and Peiping under their control frer consolidating the conquest they pread out in three columns, two to he south from Peiping and Tientsin nd one to the north against the “hinese holding Nankow Pass, where he Great Wall snakes over the moun- Ain& some 30 miles north of Peiping. it was there the Japanese met their TSt reverses. The front south of Peiping and ‘entsin - was quiet, but Japanese rouung planes made daily flights to atch the Chinese movements north rom Paotingfu toward Peiping The Chinese were moving toward | anese infantry, artillery, asitions 30 miles south of Pelping | attacks, nd if the advance continued. a Japa- | ese spokesman able inderground movement, nese. came into the open here n Peiping. It sought separate e with Japan said, a North irged establishment of an anti- | £ and anti-Communist administra- | nn divorced from the Nanking cen- | ral government in a or-North China” “North China- campaign. \. F. OF L. ATTACKED BY COLORADO CHIE ptate Federation Will Have Noth- ' cl | ing to Do With Conven- tion, He Says. y the Associated Press. DENVER, August 19.—President China | line which pushed forward, its Whangpoo river front. The long solid black line in this airview of the northwest section of Shanghai, looking toward the west, indicates the approximate position of the Chinese main This line stretched from the sorthwest edge of the Inter- national Settlement (4) along the Nanking-Shanghai Railroad (b), then curved around Japanese positions in Hongkew (5) toward the east, with the Chinese maintaining the Japanese land troops, outnumbered four to one, were losing ground, especially in the Hongkew area and in Yangtzepoo (7). Farther west, the Japanese fought with their backs to Soochow Creek (a), but reports the Chinese intended to push the Japanese back through the French concession (3/ were denied. As Japanese planes attacked the Chinese line, Chinese troops yesterday THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, * Aerial Photo Shows How Chinese Are Driving Japanese Back to River P commanders asserted, to within 500 yards of the from Japanese of this picture city of Nantao China (Continued From First Page ) | Kiangwan area of North Shanghai ‘ where Shanghai's great civie center is | located. There, the Chinese apparent- ly were holding their own against Jap- naval and air | | were fleeing. | terrible war for Shanghai, at dawn, seized sit abandoned Japanese steamers along the Pootung wharves at spot indi- cated by double-arrowed black line, and scuttled them farther up the Whangpoo at approrimate spot indicated by cross, creating a submerged barricade. spread in Pootung as Japanese bombing squadrons continued a barrage under a Shanghai moon. Chinese area of Chapei is indicated by (6). Broken lines indicate boundaries of the French concession and the International Settlement D. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1937. Guns men-o'-war all along the sector of the river shown in lower part continued to shell Pootung (1), across from the Bund, and native (2) as Chinese artillery roared return volleys of shells. New fires —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. | ward several thousand yards north of most endless reinforcements from the the American Shanghai University. | interior it was thought possible One Japanese report said the Chinese | Japan would mas: more units of her | fleet off Shanghal to keep the Chinese | back with continuous shelling British Prepare Defense. British troops began preparations for an organized defense of the In- ternational Settlement against any at- Major Offensive Expected. Chinese artillery batteries opened the seventh day of undeclared, but shelling Japanese land positions and | warships in the Whangpoo River with | The Japanese sought to cut off the & heavy barrage fire believed to be clash was | Chinese in Shanghai from help from | Preparatory to a major offensive | the Yangtze, to the north. There were| Throughout the morning the biz | reports that 800.000 Chinese were con- | Buns roared in a duel that incieased encouraged by | centrated at Nanking, the capital up | in crescendo, but before the expected | the Yangtze, to reinforce the more Chinese land attack could be launchd than 1000000 already fighting about the Japanese struck. 25.000 Japanese bluejackets here. | The Japanese attack was launched American Mission Bombed. behind a counter-barrage that swept | Japanese air bombs missed their | Doth sides of the Whangpoo. The in- mark and smashed at the American | dustrial city of Pootung, on the east | Southern Baptist Mission in the | DANK across from Shanghai proper, | Chapei quarter in North Shanghai| Was in flames. Some 35,000 Chinese |and at the American Mission Hos- | 'f00ps are intrenched here threaten- | pital at Nantungchow, up the Yangtze | I0& the Japanese from the rear. in Kiangsu province. The mission| Chinese artillery was pounding the suffered heavily, and the fate of its 20 | Japanese forces as they came forward Americans was not known. The bombs | iNt0 position. Exceptionally numer | apparently were aimed at a power OUS casualties were reported on boin | Ese! ¢ | sides. The shelling of the Japanese The international radio station at|!ro0Ps east of Kiangwan was mur- | henju, near Shanghai, also was air | Gerously neavy | bombed, without important damage. | Fires Cover the Area. | United States authorities today firm- | 1v rejected both Japanese and Chinese | attempts to interfere with movements of American naval or merchant craft | Fires were raging all over the area, throwing up a giant curtain of smoke between Kiangwan and Shanghai.! The flagship of the United Staies Frank Heflerly of the Colorado State | 0N the Whangpoo River, avenue of | Asiatic Fleet, the cruiser Augusta, in ederation of Labor declared last night | he State federation “will have noth- ng to do with the American Federa- | ion of Labor convention” meeting | ere in October. scape for Americans or other na- tionalities seeking to flee from em- battled Shanghai. American officials indicated they | would refuse to accept a Chinese gov- the foreground of the Whangpoo River, presented a majestic picture against the fire-enveloped Kiangwan and Woosung sector in the distance. The Stars and Stripes flutteced “The Colorado Federation did not | ernment notification, compliance with | from three points fore and aft in the vite the A. F. of L. convention here nd will not be represented by a dele- ate at the convention’s sessions,” Hef- | erly stated. i Hefferly's declaration, interpreted | ado Federation's leadership from the F. of L., was made after he an- | pounced the State federation is pay- | that traffic between Shanghai and the ' Nanking had exploded when it was| run ng the salaries of three Committee for | ndustrial Organization organizers in | olorado. Heflerly said the organizers are be- ng paid under the policy approved by he federation’s convention several | eeks ago in a resolution indorsing | 1. O. principles for organizing mass roduction industries. Commenting on the State federa- lon's supplying salaries for C. I. O, reanizers, Hefferly declared “William Green—whom I consider a professional strike breaker—has not | een fit to outlaw us for our action. Ve re waiting for him to try it. He ist can't.” ANADA HEARS PLAN | TO RETIRE JURISTS | uggestion to Bar Conclave Would Enlist Wisdom in Ad- visory Role. TORONTO, August 19 (Canadian ress) —A proposal to retire elderly embers of Canada's Supreme Court ut keep them available as advisory ustices came before the Canadian par Association in convention here sterday. The suggestion was advanced in a eport by the Administration of Civil ustice Committee, which offered a raft court retirement bill for con- ideration and possible presentation the ministry of justice. The committee would retire judges t full salary, if appointed after 1920 nd after 20 years' service, but re- uire them to remain available for udicial duty when needed. Supreme Court justices at present prust retire at the age of 75. There no compulsory retirement age for Provincial Superior Court jurists, and he committee bill would apply to hem the new retirement provisions. The committee said its proposals ere to assure that no obstacle be laced in the way of voluntary re- irement of & judge after long serv. ce, and that after retirement a udge's wisdom and experience should main available. Addressing the convention, Minis- er of Justice Ernest Lapointe as- ted that public opinion recently which would mean moving the cruiser Augusta, flagship of the United States Asiatic Fleet, out of Shanghai Harbor, H Insists River Stay Open. A Japanese naval & decisive message from Clarence E. Gauss, United States Consul General, sea must be absolutely unimpeded. Other foreign consuls were under- stood to have made the same reply to a notification from Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Kasegawa, commander in chief of Japanese naval forces here, of a desire to impose limitations on traffic on the Whangpoo, along which the most bitter fighting of the Sino-Japa- nese conflict has raged for days. The Nanking foreign office notified representatives of foreign powers that unless they moved their naval vessels now in Shanghai Harbor five miles away from any Japanese men-o’-war or compelled the latter to move such A distance away China could not “be responsible for the consequences.” Answers Powers’ Complaint. This notification replied to the powers’ complaints that recent bomb- ings by Chinese aircraft endangered neutral warcraft. United States officials indicated that this would mean moving the Augusta tirely away from Shanghai, which could not be done while these ships were needed to protect the evacuation of American nationals down the Whangpoo and protect Americans ashore. British and French authorities were understood to have taken the same attitude. Just after noon the Japanese Army, with reinforcements from Japan landed in the ‘morning, launched an offensive against the Chinese lines linking strategic Kiangwan with the Woosung forts. It was the first time regular troops of the Japanese Army { had entered the fighting. The Japanese announced their drive Was making “satisfactory” progress and their lines had been pushed for- FILL YOUR BI attempt to re-' 2 the official “break” of the Colo- | strict traffic on the river met with ! tung on the east. | and other American naval vessels en- | Special Announcement COAL PRICES There will be a subs price of anthracite coal on September 1, 1937. D & H COAL AND SAVE MONEY. ! brilliant sun Massed squadrons of Japanese bombers were harrassing the entire | area from Chapei to Kiangwan on the | west bank of the Whangpoo and Poo- Japanese reports said a Chmasei powder magazine and arsenal at bombed by raiding Japanese planes. A fire was said to be raging in the capital. This great metropolis of 3,500,000 persons went on a truly wartime basis today. Public utilities supplying the essentials of the city's life and activ- | ity ordered utmost conservation of their services. The huge plant of the American- owned Shanghai Power Co. ordered every possible economy. The plant, which supplies Shanghai with electric | light and power, is situated on the banks of the Whangpoo, deep within the Japanese-occupied territory. The operators disclosed vital coal supplies were running low and emer- gency oil installations were being rushed to maintain operations. The| city will be virtually lightless hence- forth, with the main current restricted to hospitals, evacuation depots and the like. Rations on Wartime Basis. Foreign communities already have | gone on wartime rations. The Amer- ican Club, which has become the great downtown center of American inter- ests, is feeding huge numbers of peo- ple. The. usually elaborate menus, however, have been cut down to soup, | beef stew and bread. Reinforcements were being rushed | | here for the International Settlement | guard. Th arrival of 1,200 additional French troops from Indo-China was expected momentarily- They will bring the total of foreigner troops in Shang- hai to approximately 7,000, with 4.000 | more on the warships lying in the har- ‘ bor. The United States has 1,500 Marine< Great Britain, 2,100 soldiers, and France, 1,700 soldiers and sailors. antial increase in the NS NOW WITH With the Chinese able to bring al- |’ tempted invasion by either Chinese or Japanese troops. The Settlement, they said, would be defended at all costs. Barbed-wire entanglements and | sand-bag barricades were erected for ! many miles along all approaches to | the Settlement The American Consulate was unable to explain the cause of the bombing of the American hospital at Nan- | tungchow unless Chinese troops had | concentrated nearby. The bare in- | formation of the attack came from Miss Nany Pry of Bedford, Ind. a member of the Central China Chris- tian Mission. The consular officials telegraphed | all Americans at Nantungchow to | evacuate immediately. Among the | Americans believed there are Dr. and | Mrs. G. L. Hagman, Louisville, Ky.; | | Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Slater, Moline, 111, | and L. A. Ely of Indianapolis, Ind. Consul General Gauss ordered all woman members of his staff to leave Shanghai on the liner President Hoo- ver, which will sail from Woosung to- morrow after a record trip from Manila with 400 reinforcements for the Ma- rine squad. (Paul V. McNutt, United States Commissioner to the Philippine Islands, reported that 375 Amer- ican nationals had arrived safely at Manila after being evacuated from Shanghai. The refugees in- cluded Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, jr. and a son. who have been touring the Orient.) The Hoover Makes Record Run. American naval officers said the President Hoover was making a record from Manila to Shanghai to evacuate Americans. The Hoover, which is expected at Woosung tomor- | row, will carry at least 1,000 Ameri- can and Filipino women and children to safety. If necessary, the liner can carry 1,500 refugees. Almost 1,000 Americans have already been evac- uated Scorning evacuation, many Ameri- can women rallied to the aid of wounded Chinese soldiers and the tens of thousands of Chinese refugees whose plight is pitiable. Scenes in the city's overcrowded hospitals were reminiscent of World War days in France, when American women, caught by the sudden declaration of war, | rendered signal ald to wounded and homeless. Automobile production is increas- ing in Germany P— 2 . Just a Stone’s Throw Situated in Alexandria, on the way to historic Mount Vernon, these magnet tourist shoppers. being shipped dicating there must be a price a3 well as an artistic urge. Colonial Wapside Ffurniture Shops Duncan Phyfe Side Chair An authentic reprodue- tion, the top slat veneered with beautiful crotch ma- hogany and seats of white simulated leather. | sit-down strike in her husband's auto- 1o wi nuseano eack BEATING BY GANG Up Hope. By 1he Associated Press DETROIT. August 19.—An injunc- tion and a divorce suit confronted to- day a 17-vear-old bride who staged a S. W. 0. C. Official Says He Was Attacked During Weirton Drive. he Associated Press NEW CUMBERLAND. W Va. Au- gust 19 —A subregional director of the Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee told a Labor Board hearing today that | he was dragged from his car and | | beaten by five or six men while he was attempting to organize employes of the Weirton Steel Co. The day before the beating. testified Paul Rusen, the S. W. O. C. repre- sentative, an automobile “tried four | | times to wreck me"” near Steubenville, | Ohio. | Rusen told the board hearing its own complaint of “terrorism” by the mobile in an effort to regain his love. The divorce suit was filed in Circuit Court by Joseph McCoy, the husband The injunction was issued by Judge Guy A. Miller The restraining order prohibits Mrs McCoy from interfering with the oper- ation of the automobile. which is parked near the home of her hus- band’s parents Earlier the young bride of three months predicted her husband would “come to me on bended knee." “I love him and I'll wait forever,” she said. SPEED MARK SET 14-Passenger Plane Flies 250 “weirton was the only place in lhe;'j// Miles an Hour. Onio Valley SANTA ANA, Calif., August in which our men were | // threatened or mistreated or employes | 7 / 19 | discharged because of our activities. | 7 7 4" —The Department of Commerce | we couldn't meet in Weirton, We met | 7 : onths 17 officially recorded today a speed mark of 250 miles an hour set over a | measured mile course here yvesterday [ by a l14-passenger (Lockheed) trans- | This ! | ort: place: | by an employe of Weirton Steel and a Built at Burbank, Calif., the ship ix ' f0rmer emplove that they had been |a midwing craft. powered with two|Sent to “get” union organizers | (wasp) engines. Factory officials said | Rusen said he it has attained a top speed of 260 | Pital” because of his beating. miles an hour. in Steubenville Employe’s Testimony. testimony followed statements | | “was put in a hos- | 7 He as- | ind the men who attacked him, add- | | ing 17 Bullets Bar Rescue | “But to this day I know no attempt | 7 | : 3 | has been made to do 0. I talked to I'| Of 3 U.S. Prisoners people living in the houses beside ~ ~ . > where I was beaten. but they told me {| From Shanghai Jail they were warned if they ever said| anything about it their houses would | be blown sky high.” Tells of Being Laid Off. James Clear, a former Weirton | worker, testified he and more than 200 | others were laid off last October lfter‘ he was seen with a C. L. O. sym- pathizer. Clear testified that he tried to get his job back. but that Claude Conway, chairman of the Weirton Steel Se- | curity League, told him: | “Well, you've been associating with a neighbor of yours who everybody knows is a C. I. O. agitator.” By the Associated Press. SHANGHAIL August 19.—A | | bulletproof vest and a patrol wagon notwithstanding. gunfire in the Japanese sector of Shang- hai proved too much today for a United States marshal's detail The marshal, E. I. Faupel of Los Angeles, Calif.. entered the WAr zone with a squad of Inter- national Settlement police in a patrol wagon to rescue three American prisoners from the ‘Wardroad Jail. The expedition quickly re- treated, however, when it was caught in an exchange of Chi- nese and Japanese gunfire. The prisoners stayed in jail. Radio Joe Tues., 6:30 P. WMAL shops have become a for Washington and Furniture is everywhere, in- Irish Linen and Sudan Cloth SUITS AUSTRIASPURRING NAZI SUPPRESSION Energetic Methods Replace Mild Actions Used After ’36 Accord. By Rad!o to The Btar. VIENNA, Austria, August 19.— Though the Nuremberg party meeting of German Nazis will open in 15 days’ time, and it is known here that the Nazi party intends to take up the question of German national minor- ities in neighboring foreign countries, including the question of the Ger- mans in Austria, the Vienna govern- ment has started recently to apply energetic methods against its own Nazis, toward whom until lately gloved hands were used because of the July, 1936, agreement between Austria and Germany. The Fatherland front has taken over the initiative and it combats every- where Nazi activities. Thus this gave rise last night to demonstrations ar- ranged by the Patriotic Front in Inns- bruck against two bookshops which axhibited too prominently Adolf Hit- ler's autobiography, “‘Mein Kampf"” (My Struggle). Before one shop, in the main street of the city, heated demonstrations occurred and the local Patriotic Front later was forced to go in and warn the shopkeeper of pos- sible unpleasant consequences, where- upon the book was destroyed. ks A3 socialistic propaganda material, among this being instructions for the com- mitting of terror acts with explosives. Nazis Handed Over to Police. All the Nazis in the inn were handed over to the police. The government, newspaper, the Reichapost, comments this morning on the incident, as fol- lows: “The incident shows that the storm corps of the Fatherland Front are animated by the apirit of initiative which is expected from them by the patriotic population. This spirit ix a guaranty that in a tolerably short period the large centers of disorders will disappear in Austria.” Even if the comment of this Cath- olic paper sounds somewhat too opti- mistic, it is certain that Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, chancellor of Austria and sponsor of the Fatherland Front, is determined to use energetic methods against the increasing aggressiven of the Nazis. (Copyright, 1937.) | MARINE FORCE FORMED S8AN DIEGO, Calif., August 19 (#) —The 2d Marine Brigade started rearganization today, preparatory to sending 1200 men and officers to war-torn China. Orders to embark are expected within 10 days, officers said Brig. Gen. John C. Beaumont. com- mander of the brigade here, will as- sume command of all Marines in the war zone. [PLYMOUTH Nazi Sympathizers Ousted. In Wels, Upper Austria, several per- sons were sentenced by the police for painting swastikas (Nazi symbol) on walls, while already some days ago sev- eral emploves of the federal railroads, in the same ecity, were compelled to quit the Fatherland Front because they were diseovered to be sympathizing secretly with the Nazis. Yesterday the Carinthian authori- ties closed the Stiegen-Braeu Inn, in Willach, a town only 15 miles from where the Duke of Windsor lives. This inn, noted for its excellent beer, was a | favorite meeting place of Nazis. It happened that the Vienna Storm Corps of wreath Sunday on the Heroes’ Monu- ment in Willach. The wreath was re- moved Tuesday night by Nazis and brought into the inn. As a result yesterday the Storm Corps announced that the inn had been cleaned up of Nazis and that they had found large quantities of national the Fatherland Front placed a| De Luxe 5-Pass. Black EDAN With Built-in Trunk Delivered in D. C. 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