Nanking, Aug. 29.
The aeroplane whose crew consisted of Flight Captain Drechsel, Pilot von Tettenborn, and mechanic and wireless operator Penke, took off from Kabul in the early hours this morning and reached Soochow in eleven hours.
Both aeroplanes, it is stated, will fly back to Kabul within the next few days. Whilst the first plane will then return to Germany, the second machine commanded by Drechsel will fly again by the same route to China.—Trans-Ocean.
Suffering unusually heavy losses as a result of terrific Japanese aerial and artillery bombardment, Chinese garrison forces at Kalgan, capital of Charhar on the Peiping-Suiyuan Railway, have withdrawn to the outskirts of the city, cording to information from military circles this morning.
The Chinese troops who had been putting up a gallant resistance against the fierce Japanese onslaught during the last fortnight were commanded by General Liu Ju-ming, concurrently chairman of Charhar. Before they tell back on their new defence lines, they succeeded in inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese forces:
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