WAR IN ORIENT
SWIFT ADVANCE OF JAPANESE United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph —Copyright (Received February 22, 6.30 p.m.) PEKING, February 21 The Japanese, swiftly advancing on the north Honan front, occupied Chiatso, and reached Chinggushan, the western terminus of the PekingHankow railway. Burning of Villages Hundreds of small Chinese villages have gone up in smoke, and thousands are homeless, as the result of new Japanese tactics to prevent villages from being used by roving bands as bases for attacks against lines of communication. There have been a scries of fires along the Peking-Hankow railway.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20969, 23 February 1938, Page 14
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95WAR IN ORIENT Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20969, 23 February 1938, Page 14
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