The Archive · 1937

Opposite Claims

On the other hand the Chinese claim to have captured the Japanese Navy Club at Chung Kung Road, oft Yangtszepoo, at 9.30 o'clock yesterday morning. The Chinese "attack was carried out by members of the 518th Regiment, and the Japanese are said to have vacated the club after putting up a stiff resistance. It known that the Japanese in that fore the reinforcement terday, were in small numbers, being stationed in pickets about 100 yards apart and in communication with each other by signal lamps_at night and wig-wagging during the day. Each picket had one or more machine-guns, but the impression gained by foreign observ was that the line in that area was very

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