THE CHINA MAIL. NOVEMBER 9, 1937
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TAIYUANFU'S BESIEGED ARMY'S HEROIC FIGHT Japanese Artillery Blast Third Breach In Walls EVERY INCH CONTESTED
IN SANGUINARY STREET FIGHTING
Peiping, To-day.
The streets of Taiyuanfu were the scene of a grim conflict all day yesterday as the Japanese troops, according to Japanese sources, gradually
ITALIANS KILLED IN ABYSSINIA
Rome, To-day.
Ten Italians, including seven officers, were killed by Abyssin- fans last month, according to an official announcement.
The announcement adds that the men died in the course of po- lice operations during the mop- ping up of hostile Abyssinian. tribesmen-Reater.
enlarged their gains and drove the defenders of EMPLOYMENT IN
the Shansi capital southward.
By 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese ar- tillery had completed the third breach in the walls, enabling infantry to rush in and seize the north- east corner of the city, one-third of which is now claimed to be in Japanese hands.
BRITAIN
London, To-day. The Ministry of Labour estimates
at October 18th that the number of insured persons in employment, ex- dusive of persons within the agri-
The Japanese plan is to force the Chinese troops out of the south gate, where an ambush awaits cultural scheme, was approximately them.-Reuter.
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HEROIC FIGHT BY GEN. FU'S
BELEAGUERED TROOPS
11,659,000, or 47,000 less than the revised figure for the month before.
On a comparable basis, there was, however, an increase of approxi mately 464,000 from the year be
FOREIGN HOMES
USED AS DEFENCE POSTS
Shanghai, Today
Many foreign homes in the Hungjao Road residential district have been despoiled by looters, spite of pro minent notices that they were foreign property
Typical example is houseof a prominent for eigner, where every door had been forced and the win- dows splintered by explo- sions, while every room was found in a state of chaos.
All drawers had been forced open and furniture piled one on- top of the other. Bookcases were pulled down and books pil- ed in the middle of the floor
In addition the cellar had been raided of everything
ed.
All gin in stock had been drunk, while corks of whisky bottles had been driven into the bottles, but the contents left un- touched.
Brandy seemed to have been the most popular drink, as empty bottles and debris testified Reuter.
NO REPRIEVE
Beirut, Te day, The authorities have refused
Peiping, To-day General Fu Tso-yi's army is putting fore
At the same date, the regis- An admission that Taiyuanfu was up a staff resistance. proving a hard nut to crack, was A message from Tokyo says thattered unemployed numbered 1,390,- made by Japanese headquarters here a War Office spokesman admitted 249, comprising 1,159,613 wholly yesterday, when it was stated that that Japanese troops are suffering unemployed, 176,337 temporarily frontal attacks on the Chinese in heavy losses in sanguinary street laid off, and 54,299 normally in causal the besieged town are proving cost-fighting in Taiyuanfu, where the
invaders are undergoing the same employment. This was 51,045 more However, a Japanese spokesman experiences of the Japanese in Chathan the month before but 166,400 The sentence of death there
ly.
claims that the Chinese have lost peï. several thousand men in the fighting for the Shansi capital, with Japan- ese losses almost as severe.
SANGUINARY FIGHTING
FIGHTING TO DEATH
The fighting is of a hand-to-hand nature, with the Japanese slowly pressing forward by virtue of superiority of numbers.
The Chinse literally fight to the proceed any quicker following fall last man, each small group going of the city, which it must be ad bravely to its death rather than sur- mitted, is only a matter of time, as render-Trans Ocean.
It seems doubtful whether the Japanese advance southward will
consider the plea for a reprieve of gul-General.
the murderer of the American Con-
less on a comparable basis than the will be carried out within the next year before. British Wireless... few days-Trang-Oct
TRAVEL
Children at the Refugee Cent
34. drill under traming-
at the Ching Fleet Club Shanghai Refugee Welfare ised by Mr. E B. Powis, of progress has been made
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