CHINA'S MODERNISED ARMY DEFYING JAPANESE MIGHT,
Japan’s armies, sweeping Into Hopei province In North China, are making their objective the ancient capital of Peiping and the Invaders are reportedly equipped with light artillery such &« that shown (at left), and with aeroplanes and tanks. Chlang Kai Shek’s Nationalist armies are a more formidable force than they were when the famous 9th Route Army held Nippon’s troops at bay in the Chapel sector of Shanghai. Proof that modern equipment is theirs is given (at right). Troops of the same type being rushed northward from Nanking to defend Hopei, are shown (at right) sweeping the skies with a searchlight, while the soldier at top is drawing a bead with a modern automatic rifle.
CHINESE TROOPS ARRIVING AT PEIPING,
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20282, 26 August 1937, Page 14
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125CHINA'S MODERNISED ARMY DEFYING JAPANESE MIGHT, Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20282, 26 August 1937, Page 14
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