ORDERLY RETREAT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 164, 4 March 1932, Page 5

ORDERLY RETREAT

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rE-WRACKED AND TERROR rRICKEN TROOPS .FLEE BEFORE JAPANESE AR PRACTICALLY OVER"

-By T elegraph — Copyright) .

SHANGHAI, Wednesday. h the exception of Woosung a large body of troops is eut

d is stxll holdmg the village, linose troops have retreated on front under the pressure of panese artillery and aeroplane rs. ?r the railway communications iking liad been severed in acce with the Japanese warning, linese retreat developed into a :hough the Chinese insist that a tactical manoeuvre in falling m the second line of defence. Japanese believe that the war ?tically over, but the Chinese ,in it is only beginning. They liting till the Japanese areinto the interior, away from tases. Eleventh Japanese Division, took Liuh£, has advanced a u-able distance toward Tazhich the Chinese have. abanddreds of dead are still lying in 'as devastated by the Japanese :-dment during the past week. huge concentration of Chinese he Tazang-Chengju front turna fleeing rabble, nerve-wrack- ! terrified, seeking vainly for from the attacking 'planes. msiderable force of Chinese Chengju rallied and attempt-mntes-attack, but was quickly d, with heavy losses, and joingeneral stampede toward n. It is unlikely that they will serious stand this side of that