Word: chapei
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...quite a social occasion. U. S. Vice Admiral Taylor's aide, Lieut. Henri H. Smith-Hutton, paid a call. Admiral Nomura stepped into his barge and returned it. British Vice Admiral Kelly popped over for a chat. The Press was invited and Admiral Nomura made a little speech. Chapei's cannon rattled the teacups...
Japan's attack was divided in two parts : The effort to drive Chinese defenders out of the Chapei native district behind the International Settlement; the bombardment of the Woosung forts 16 miles away where the Whangpoo River flows into the great Yangtze...
...Thursday night at 11:15 p. m. he began the systematic occupation of Chapei, the Chinese city stretching north of the rich International Settlement. He had in all about 3,000 troops-some 1,200 marines from his ship, some 2,000 of the Japanese garrison maintained in the Japanese section of the International Settlement. Armored cars with searchlights led the way. Behind them came trucks, jammed with infantry. In reserve were infantry, on foot. Crash! Crash! went the rifles shooting out the street lights as the columns advanced. At every corner trucks stopped. Men hopped out to scurry through...
...nations to reply to the five proposals, while British Minister for the Dominions J. H. Thomas was making a rousing speech before an extraordinary session of the League Council at Geneva, the Japanese continued fighting in Shanghai and announced that the Chinese had been heavily repulsed in the Chapei district. And in Tokyo, the Japanese General Staff showed no signs of rescinding its order, made the day before, that a military force be sent to Shanghai to reinforce the marines...
LOST.- On Norton's Field near the Divinity Chapei, on Thursday afternoon, a white sweater, extra length and extra high collar. Kindly return to CRIMSON office...