NANKOW PASS
ENDED CAPTURE BY JAPANESE KALGAN ALSO OCCUPIED FIGHTING AT GREAT WALL By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Times Cable LONDON, August 25 The Tokio correspondent of the Times reports that the capture of Nankow Pass, North China, is confirmed after 11 days' fighting in country so difficult that some of the Japanese units were fed and supplied with munitions from the air. A typical operation was the capture of the village of Chunyungkwan, where the last position was a watch tower on the Great Wall. Here, when their hand grenades were finished, the Chinese rolled great stones upon the Japanese, killing and wounding many. The Japanese, after the capture of Kalgan,- are now advancing down the Peking-Suiyuan railway.
A message from Peking says the Japanese report that they are continuing their advance west of Nankow, while another force is rapidly moving with the object of taking the Chinese in the rear at Nankow Pass.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22818, 27 August 1937, Page 11
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