A GREAT ROUT

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1933, Page 6

A GREAT ROUT

complete jap .victory

(United Press Astrouatioa —By. Electric Telegraph—Copyright-,-).

(Received Atarcu 7 at 11.45 a.m.) SHANGHAI, Alarcn G.

Every road leading from Jehol -to the Great Warn*. presents, a scene of indescribable confusion, a» disorderly uniformed hordes pour through the •parses: Game'’ tmius, rumbling t»x car ti l, and motor vehicles era mined with soldiers are straggling as rapidly ay possible from the scene of defeat, while Japanese aeroplanes eon■LUiiViue to circle overhead, mainiy for tile pur pare of observation, but occasionally dropping bomlie. In many places, arms and-other equipment were abandoned by the fugitives. Whole boxes of ammunition with the -seals unbroken were left at .the roadside a® the transports wore lightened *to /provide room for so-'diers.

Fighting continues in isolated places, hut the demorali'-nilon of the massed armies of Ttngyulin and Chang Hisue-h Liamg, is complete. It will he a. matter of days.only before the province is denuded of sill trace c-f the former soldiery, except for thousands •of dead which are scattered from Ivajlu in tire far north to the Great Wall. "Of twenty thousand' of Chang’s men Operating between Lingynan and Ohengteh’,'•'''the majority are missing either killed or captured.