JAPANESE DEBACLE
TOWN SET ON FIRE TO COVER RETREAT CHINESE TROOPS HARRYING FUGITIVES. FIVE HUNDRED PRISONERS TAKEN. (Recd This Day, 11.40 a.m.) HANKOW, April 8. Japanese troops who escaped from the Taierhchwang debacle, set fire to the town of Yihsien to cover their retreat.
Chinese columns threaten to surround the Japanese headquarters. Others are destroying railway tracks and bridges in order to 'prevent the Japanese reaching the main TientsinPukow line.
General Sun Lien-chung reports the capture of five hundred prisoners, who were without food for sixteen days owing to the Chinese surrounding them.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1938, Page 8
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