HEAVY DEFEAT
BEATEN JAPANESE SUFFER GREAT LOSSES ON TIENTSIN-PUKOW RAILWAY. CHINESE PURSUING HOTLY. (Recd This Day, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, April 7. The Chinese are hotly pursuing the Japanese in general retreat northward, along the Lincheng-Taierhch-wang branch of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, systematically decimating the fugitives in what is claimed to be the heaviest Japanese defeat in the campaign, involving 20,000 casualties, compared with 7000 suffered by the Chinese. Many additional Japanese are entrapped.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1938, Page 8
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72HEAVY DEFEAT Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1938, Page 8
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