THE NEW YORK TIMES, Aug. 14, 1937

• Battle of Shanghai, China begins
• Imperial Japanese Army
• Second Sino-Japanese War

The top of the front page has a three column heading: "SHANGHAI BATTLE GOES ON AS RAIN HALTS CITY FIRES; CHINESE PLANES ATTACK HIP" with various subheads. (see images) 
Complete with 30 pages, rag edition in nice condition.

Background: The Battle of Shanghai, initiated on August 13–14, 1937, stands as a pivotal historical milestone of extraordinary rarity and strategic consequence, marking both the first major clash of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the premier full-scale urban battle of World War II. Far from a localized border skirmish, these opening days saw Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek deploy China's elite, German-trained divisions in an aggressive, high-stakes attempt to disrupt Japan's northern blitzkrieg by shifting the theater of operations to the Yangtze Delta, while simultaneously seeking Western intervention through the city's international neutral zones. The encounter holds rare military significance as the debut of modern multi-domain urban warfare in Asia, blending mechanized naval blockades, close-quarters street fighting in Zhabei, and aerial dogfights, culminating in the tragic "Bloody Saturday" of August 14—a devastating event where misaimed Chinese bombs struck the International Settlement and killed over 2,000 civilians in one of history's deadliest single-day civilian air raids prior to the Blitz.