Peking, Jan. 4. graphic communication with fand as despatches in, they paint a picture of heroism or the Cotppared with some of the exploits'
19th Route Army at Shanghai early last year.
The Chinese troops clung to their Jdefences in the face of a terrifying, it. Shells battered fates and stretches of wall bombs or shells started fire upon fire reminiscent of those in Chapel last February.
All the refugees tell terrible tales of the hell which broke loose duri the Japanese bombardment. but brick heaps. or smouldering ruins, with the dead lying heaped in the streets, So far no oficial estimates of the military casualties have been received due to bad com. munications, but the story" of Colonel An Teh-hsin is suffeient to indicate the extent of the slaughter,
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