TERRIBLE BATTLE
SIXTEEN DAYS’ FIERCE FIGHTING
BITTER STRUGGLE FOR CHINESE TOWNS. SMOULDERING RUINS FILLED WITH DEAD. By Telegraph—Press Assn., Copyright. (Recd This Day, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, April 5.. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Shanghai corespondent says after sixteen days’ fierce fighting, in which Taierhchwang and Hanchwang, now smouldering shells, filled with the charred bodies of those killed in street fighting, have changed hands four times, the Japanese again claim that they have ejected the Chinese from both towns, breaking the Chinese defence of the Grand Canal. The Chinese further suffered in their retreat, the defenders of the south bank machine-gunning them, believing that they were Japanese attacking. The Japanese have now resumed their advance towards Hsuchow. A Hankow message states that the Chinese do not admit the Japanese claims, adding that they still hold portions of the towns. They also assert that they are advancing satisfactorily south-west of Shanghai towards the Shanghai-Hungchow Railway. A Hong Kong message states that the Japanese casualties during the fighting at Taierhchwang were 15,000 and those of the Chinese 9,000.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1938, Page 8
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