UNWARLIKE COOLIES.
IN MANCHURIAN TROUBLE. PRESS GANGS AT WORK. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT MUKDEN, Oct. 12. Out of a welter of conflicting reports the fact has emerged that Shanghaikwe was definitely captured yesterday by the Mukden army after sanguinary Silting. The Mukden troops charged the edge of the first trench, but were unable to cross until volleys from the defenders and pressure from behind filled the trench with dead and wounded. This operation was repeated at the second trench. In.order.to fill the depleted ranks resulting from this method of fighting, the police press gangs , in Mukden are rounding up coolies. Yesterday four thousand were. entrained for the front amid scenes of the wildest mourning, wives and mothers shrieking farewells to husbands and sons going to what they believe to- be certain slaughter. The second Mudken army continues to advance upon Cliinawangtao.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 October 1924, Page 5
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140UNWARLIKE COOLIES. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 October 1924, Page 5
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