PAOTINGFU FALLS
Important Japanese Victory in North CHINESE ARMIES RETREAT (Eeceived 24, 1.5 p.m.) PEIPING, Sept. 23. Overcoming desperate Chinese ma-chine-gunners outside the wall, and silencing guns on the battleraents with heavier artillery, the Japanese report, they have captured Paotingfu. Japanese aeroplanes bombed Talningfu and Yenchow and Taeheng. Farthcr east they bombarded the last. fortified line before Tsangchow. The Japanese bombed Chufu, birthplace of Confucius, and also Tsinging, mldpolnt on the Tientsin-Nanking railway, and also Suchow, an important junetion farther south. The Chinese resistance in the Hopei province has resolved itself into a rearguard action covering the main armies' retreat. A Shanghai message reports that the Japanese, reinforced by the 4000 troops who arrived earlier in the day, Tesum'ed the offensive at Liuho. The Chinese claim that they annihilatcd 300 Japanese at Paoshan, besides inflicting other losses on the Shanghai front.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 1, 24 September 1937, Page 5
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