MUKDEN’S COSTLY VICTORY.
MUKDEN, October 12. Out of the welter of conflicting reports the fact lias emerged that Shan-hai-kwan was definitely captured yesterday by the .Mukden army, after sanguinary fighting. Mukden troops charged to the edge of the first trench, hut 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 a second treneli. In order to fill tiie depleted ranks, resulted from this method of fighting, police press gangs in Afuktlen are rounding up coolies. Yesterday 1000 were entrained for the front, amid scenes of widest mourning, wives and mothers shrieking farewells to husbands and sons going to what they believe to he certain slaughter. The 2nd Mukden Army continues to advance upon C'hing-wang-tao. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. LONDON, October 11. Following arc the foreign exchange rates. — On Brussells, 03.30 francs to L'L On Paris.—SLOT francs. On Stockholm.—lo.B7 kroner. On Christiania. —31.47 kroner. Copenhagen.—26.33 kroner. Bin an.—lß; billions of marks. Romo. -102] lire. Calcutta.— 17 Jo-16 to the rupee. Yokohama.—2o; yen. Hong Kong.—29; yen. Montreal. —449 - cents. New A'ork. —149 J cents.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1924, Page 1
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187MUKDEN’S COSTLY VICTORY. Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1924, Page 1
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