DOMINANCE ASSURED
JAPANESE CLAIM (Received October 12, 10.10 a.m.) TOKIO, October 11. The Chinese arc now holding only a small corner of the Province of Hope!, according to Japanese claims, which declare that the capture of Shihchiacbwang assures them of the dominance of North China. An official naval statement claims that Japanese warships have bo far beached or sunk seven Chinese cruisers and eight gunboats, have sunk a destroyer, a torpedo-boat, and a survey vessel, and have also destroyed 324 Chinese planes, and wrecked eighteen aerodromes and ten arsenals. The Japanese have lost 39 planes, but no ships, and the casualties total 1133.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 89, 12 October 1937, Page 9
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103DOMINANCE ASSURED Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 89, 12 October 1937, Page 9
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