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China's "Verdun," (with which Father Jacquinot had nothing to do), consisted last week of the heroic defense of the Woosung Forts, 16 miles from Shanghai proper. But there were altogether too many mysteries in connection with China's "Verdun"'?Oriental mysteries...
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...
...Woosung was China's Verdun. Day after day Japanese warships in the river blasted away at the Chinese batteries (pausing politely to let U. S. and British steamers and warships pass). But the Chinese, for once grimly determined, held on. The redoubts of the forts were blown into heaps of muck. Three thousand Japanese bluejackets went ashore to occupy Woosung Village. No sooner did they move out against the forts than the battered trenches came to life with such a withering rifle and machine gun fire that the Japanese were forced back. Back into action went the ships...
...Nationalist Government with which he is out of sympathy, has long since made patrician Scholar Hu extremely careful of his delicate, parchment-like skin. For months he has spent his studious nights in the well guarded foreign quarter of Shanghai, venturing out only by day to the suburb of Woosung where he is president of a private college called the China National Institute. Recently, however, Dr. Hu, daring much, contributed to the leading Chinese intellectual review, the monthly Crescent Moon, three articles flaying the Nationalist Government. Last week Nationalist's militaristic leaders moved to take heavy-fisted vengeance on their...
...large and reliable source of income possessed by the Nanking Nationalists. Last week the native quarter of Shanghai was ineffectively bombed by hand grenades thrown from two hydroplanes belonging to Peking Dictator Chang Tso-Lin. The planes operated from the Peking cruiser Haichi which suddenly appeared before the Woosung forts, fired a few tentative broadsides and scuttled...