Japanese Desperate Attack, Daily Racing Form, 1938-04-02

JAPANESE DESPERATE ATTACK SHANGHAI, China, April 1. With backs to battered walls, Chinese are carrying on a "desperate defense of Taierchwang, little city on a narrow-gauge railroad east of the main Tientsin-Pukow line in Shantung Province. After eight days of fiercest street fighting and a brief lull Japanese shock troops, preceded by tanks, today launched a new attack.