CHINESE RED ROUTE ARMY
SURROUNDED AT YUANPING SEVERE HOSTILITIES LIKELY AT HWAI RIVER SHANGHAI, Bth February. The Eighth Chinese Red Route Army is surrounded at Yuanping, 80 miles north of Taiyuan, after fierce fighting with 20,000 Japanese. Severe hostilities appear imminent at Hwai River, where
the Japanese are reinforced. A Canton message says that Japanese aeroplanes machine-gunned a fleet of junks carrying American petrol, and killed one Chinese. The American Consul is investigating.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 10 February 1938, Page 7
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