GREAT RETREAT
JAPANESE FORCES CLAIM BY DEFENDERS SUCCESS OF ATTACK . FUGITIVES DECIMATED By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright LONDON. April 7 In a violent counter-attack on the Tientsin-Pukow railway, the Chinese claim to have killed 7000 and forced the Japanese to retire in great disorder, and also to have captured vast quantities of war material, says a message from Hankow.
The Chinese Embassy here states that it is announced from Hankow that the Chinese are hotly pursuing the Japanese in a general retreat northward along the Lincheng-Taierchwang branch of the Tientsin-Pukow railway, systematically decimating fugitives in what' is claimed to the heaviest Japanese defeat of the campaign, involving 20,000 casualties, compared with 7000 Chinese.
Many additional Japanese have been trapped.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23009, 9 April 1938, Page 15
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