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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1932
Page
3
Shanghai front reports renewed Japanese assaults along a wide sector. Japanese center presses three to four miles wide, capturing Klongran briefly before Chinese counterattacks recapture. Kiangwan remains contested as Japanese bombers, ships, and artillery pound Chinese positions. Financial strain hits Shanghai as government seeks bond redemptions and new loans amid mounting casualties.
Senator Borah chairing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee warned that boycotting Japan would be tantamount to an act of war. He said the nation must act within limits to protect peace in the Orient and avoid harming the United States.
Chinese shelling hit a Japanese destroyer near Shanghai killing several crewmen and injuring others, with reports of further hits on other Japanese warships. Japanese marines reportedly suffered heavy casualties in the Kiangwan attack per Chinese claims.
Rioting and stabbings accompanied Japan's election day in Tokyo as Koreans faced arrests while Japanese voters exercised their first full suffrage for 74 candidate offices across the archipelago. Police reported three troops and guards maintaining order amid clashes as Manchuria and Shanghai invasion issues loomed over the ballot.
TOKIO Feb 20 Henry Pu Yi former emperor of China and plebeian citizen for 20 years was proclaimed emperor of the new Japanese controlled Manchuria. General Tsang Shi-v named first premier. Announcement followed newspaper dispatches from Mukden. The new Manchurian ruler is 23.
The Watsons League secretariat plans to invite the United States to join the March 3 league assembly amid Japan's aggression in China. US participation is seen as unlikely, with many hoping for sanctions but fearing a push toward war without real fighting. Delegates have been sent invitations. Chinese delegate Yen signals possible Article 16 action. Debate yesterday criticized the council for failing to take decisive steps against the crisis.
In Shanghai on February 20, the American Fifty first infantry taught local telephone operators a lesson in digit usage. The workers rose in a strike over saying zero and naught in numbers spoken over the phones. Officials urged exchanges to adopt the American practice of saying O for zero and Naught for none.
Shanghai mayor Wu To Chen issued a communique accusing Japanese soldiers of using dum-dum bullets in violation of the international code of warfare He said newspaper correspondents would be invited to inspect evidence substantiating the charge
Manila dispatch reports fierce fighting in Shanghai crippling cable communications between Shanghai and Manila. The Commercial Pacific Cable Co routed messages via Hong Kong and Wooing while the Hongkong Shanghai Eastern extension and the Shanghai London line gradually resumed service by nightfall. Los Angeles bulletin notes ROA connections between Shanghai and Hong Kong remain active.
Washington dispatch reports last-minute diplomacy by American and neutral powers in Shanghai to avert the impending clash. Nelson T. Johnson informed the State Department that the ministers urged Japan to share responsibility for damage to foreigners and property amid rising hostilities. American, British, French, Italian military reps protested Tsai Peng-Kal over artillery actions in the Shanghai area.
A last minute diplomatic effort by the United States Britain France and Italy to delay the clash for Shanghai failed. Nelson T Johnson American minister to China and the allied envoys urged Japanese minister Shigemitsu on Friday to grant China more time to decide on the ultimatum before Japan moved. Shigemitsu said Japan had already been too generous and too slow in its approach to the Nineteenth Chinese route army defending the city.
London announced Sir Myles Lampson British minister to China and Brig. Gen. George Fleming British military commander in Shanghai have been given full authority to evacuate British nationals and to defend the International settlement in cooperation with other powers.
Amerleay Consul General Edwin S Cunningham sent a formal protest to Japanese Consul General Mural demanding removal of seals and bars blocking the Sanchow University door. He asserted the right of egress for American property owners and warned against Japanese interference. The Japanese had not yet replied to protests over the Azerbaya document ransacking linked to anti Japanese propaganda.
SIANGHAT Feb 20 reports all American civilians in relatively safe zones as Japanese artillery and air bombardment intensified to drive Chinese forces from Shanghai and surrounding threatened areas. Evacuations of women and children had begun earlier as the attack commenced.
In Corio on February 20 an Imperial luncheon hosted Emperor Hirohito for Theodore Roosevelt the new Governor of the Philippine Islands en route to his post. Officials say discussion centered on American Philippine policy with no injunction announced.
Widespread uprisings spread across North Manchuria as loyalists clash with the autonomous state of Ankop under Henry Pu-Yi. Japanese forces rush troops and planes to suppress the revolt. battles flare along the Kilrin Tunghua railroad line and across frontier zones with Chinse and bandit factions.
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