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OF JAPANESE-OCCUPIED CITY.
BY CHINESE SPECIAL TROOPS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) RUGBY, November 25. Chinese troops who for the past two months have besieged Kinhwa, the capital of Chekiang, heard two loud explosions from the centre of the city at night, states a Chinese source. Specially trained commando troops, wearing civilian clothes, had penetrated the lines of the Japanese defences and attacked places in the city with grenades and explosives. Among the places attacked was the Japanese Army headquarters. Immediately after the incident the Japanese declared martial law.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 November 1942, Page 4
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