MONGOLIANS CHANGE SIDES
CHUNGKING, February 25
A communique states: "A Mongolian ai-my of 15,000 men, comprising two divisions of Japanese-equipped Mongol cavalrymen, recently abandoned their Japanese command and joined the Chinese forces near Paotow.
"The defection followed the fatal poisoning of their commander. Pai Trangh-siang. at a banquet, given by Japan's Gestapo."
It is also announced that the Chinese forces have been continually attacking the enemy outposts at Yochow, in the north of Hunan Province, and have inflicted more than 1000 Casualties on the Japanese.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1942, Page 5
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