Word: woosung
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...From newspaper reports it is difficult to realize what is occurring in Shanghai district. Japan has at present three divisions of troops or about 5,000 men in the immediate vicinity. Since Japan has all rights between Shanghai and the Yangtze river where the Woosung forte are located they are occupying the entire river line to the north and east against a line of Chinese troops drawn up parallel to the river...
Battles. What Japan had set out to conquer was the Woosung Forts 16 miles from Shanghai; the Chinese district in Shanghai called Chapei; and the land between Shanghai and Woosung. Most spectacular feature of this intermediate terrain last week was Shanghai's $1,000,000 race course. It adjoined the town and railway station of Kiangwan...
...less than eleven Japanese transports bearing 20,000 fresh Japanese troops (who discreetly remained out of sight) steamed past the Woosung Forts without so much as a rifle being fired at them. Yet the whole world knew and Shanghai knew, and presumably the Chinese at Woosung knew what was on those ships...
When the four hour truce between Japanese and Chinese at Shanghai was called last week (see p. 21) officials hurried through the Woosung region hustling non-combatants to safety. They found a small hotel peppered with lead from both sides in the bombardment of the Woosung Forts. The vegetable garden adjoining it was pock-marked by shells. Within was the proprietor, a retired oldtime British navy officer named Capt. Frederick Davis who had operated the hotel for many years-the only white civilian remaining in the vicinity. His pet dog had disappeared; he had been living for days on such...
That story was dug out of the confused scene around Shanghai last week by Associated Press. . . . Correspondent Peggy Hull of the Chicago Tribune found a German officer commanding well-drilled Chinese fighters. . . . Correspondent Victor Keen of the New York Herald Tribune drove to Japanese headquarters near Woosung in time to see a hapless Chinese condemned to death because his captors found money in his pocket ("evidence" that he was paid to kill Japanese...