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HINA MAIL NOVEMBER

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ALHAMBRA IN BITTER TAIYUANFU

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TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

LATEST NEWSREEL SUBJECTS

FROM THE NORTHERN, EASTERN & WESTERN FRONTS

66

OF THE

CHINA WAR”

· ITS ARMIES AND ITS AIR FORCESE

IN DEFENCE

AIR RAIDS AND DAMAGES DONE

TO LIFE AND PROPERTY!

he War Fronts Brought Right To The Theatre!

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A VARIETY REVUE

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Under the auspices of

Hong Kong Y's Men's Club

in aid of

STREET BATTLES

Peiping, To-day.

Casualty lists of the Taiyuanfu fighting are not available to foreign newspaper correspondents, but Trans-Ocean learns unofficially that the street fighting in the Shansi capital was the bitterest yet experienced in the Sino-Japanese hostilities.

Scarcely any prisoners were taken, it is learn- ed, those Chinese who fell into Japanese hands be ing wounded men who no longer had the strength to fight on.

Their comrades went to their death fighting in most heroic fashion. In some cases, individual sol- diers would charge towards the advancing Ja panese, to fall riddled with dozens of bullets.

Japanese headquarters here des- cribe the Chinese resistance es “heroic" and, although keeping quiet as to their own casualties, it is certain the defenders of Taiyuan sold their lives dearly, and that several thousand more soldiers have swelled the Japanese casualty list-Tran-Ocean.

TAIYUANFU GARRISON DIE TO LAST MAN

ISOLATED GROUPS STILL HOLD OUT

[From Our Own Correspondent]

Peiping, 115 pm To-day. The Japanese Command, an- nouncing that fighting in Tairuanfu is practically completed, stated that the heroic defenders were all Shansi troops.

All the Central Government forces, together with other Shansi divisions, are now - Concentrated about 30 miles south of Taiyuanfi.

The Japanese troops in the Shansi capital are still meraced by snipers, working in isolated groups, while there are a number of small The Chinese garrison of Taiyuan-detachments holding out in the

Peiping, To-day.

NORTH CHINA WAR RELIEF FUND fu, consisting of an unknown num-suburbs, against which operations

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KING'S VISIT TO WEST OF ENGLAND

London, To-day.

aunc

Castle, Liskeard, Camborne

ber of troops of the 73rd and 34th of a "mopping-up" nature are in Shansi divisions, fought to the last progress. Our Own Correspon man in desperate hand-to-hand dent

clashes which raged all over the

city.

The end came after the Japanese JAPANESE

sappers blew up the West Gate, ad- mitting fresh troops which over-

whelmed Chinese resistance. TROOPS JUST

There is no news of the British missionaries who remained in Tai yuan, but the Japanese military. authorities have promised to quire into their fate..

en-

12 MILES APRTA

Tokyo, To-day.

JAPANESE TRIBUTE A Japanese spokesman said admire the Chinese soldiers at Tax Latest War Office reports state

that the Japanese troops

on the Nowhere else in North China Shanghai front and those who have the Chinese fought so obstin-landed in Hangchow Bay, are now

ately.

He added that he believed the only 20 kilometres apart, and ex- Chinese troops in the Shansi capi-pect to effect a junction to day. tal were commanded by General The Hangchow Bay landing En 180-yi

force seems to have definitely take Sungkang.

"If his body is found among the dead, I will respect him but if he is-safe somewhere else, China ese advancing south easterly weak eternally

ter ometres

A report that

JAPANESE POWER Indicating that Japanese

in - Shansi- is disproportions small compared with the Chi the spokesman express the ion that

aunceston Castle, the very panese old custom of the presentation of Fendal dues will take place.

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