Hundreds of Villages Go Up In Smoke
United Press Association—By .Electric Tele* rraph. —Copyrigh t. PEIPING, Feb. 21. Hundreds of small Chinese villages have gone up in smoke and thousands are homeless as the result of new Japanese tactics to prevent the villages being used by roving bands as bases for attacks against lines of communication. There hs been a series of fires along the Pei ping-Hankow railway. The Japanese are swiftly advancing on the North Honan front. They have occupied Chintso and reached ChingGushan, the 4vestern terminus of the Peiping-Hankow railway.
The Japanese claim that after capturing Poasilisien, the terminus of the Toakow-Sienchwa railway and killing 3000 Chinese in Tungyangkwan Pass, thereby enteiing the plains'south of Honan, they drove westward aeroea the Great Canal find occupied Ankuchen.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 45, 23 February 1938, Page 2
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