JAPANESE POSITIONS STORMED
CHINESE OFFICERS KILLED THREAT TO PEKIN-HANICOW RAILWAY (Received 19th October, 9 a.m.) NANKING, 18th October. Japanese aeroplanes dropped orders that those beleaguered must hold out at all costs, as reinforcements are coming. The Chinese, supported by artillery and aircraft, stormed (he Japanese position. A Chinese divisional commander, a brigadier, and two regimental commanders visiting the front-line trenches were killed. A mobile Chinese column is threatening the Japanese hold on the PekinHankow railway north of Paotingfu. but the Japanese claim they captured Ksingkuhuan Pass on the Hopei-Shansi border. A Pekin report says the Japanese assert they have made further progress in South Hopei, where they captured Shungteh. An armoured train, (he spearhead of the advance, entered Hantan, 22 miles north of the Honan border.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 19 October 1937, Page 5
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