THREAT TO TAIYUAN
JAPANESE ADVANCE
MASS CHINESE RETREAT
30,000 DEAD
(Received November 5, noon.) TOKIO, November 4. The Japanese in Shansi Province captured Sinkow, 55 miles north of Taiyuan, and later tftok Sinchow, 40 miles nearer. A Japanese death band tunnelled under the Chinese main positions and blew them up at midnight, and then machine-gunned the Chinese. The "Asahi Shimbun" claims that the Chinese left 30,000 dead, and that 200,000 troops are retreating to Taiyuan.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 110, 5 November 1937, Page 9
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75THREAT TO TAIYUAN Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 110, 5 November 1937, Page 9
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