The Archive · 1937

Two Divisions in Pootung

Japanese Reveal Positions of Chinese Troops Two Chinese divisions are distributed in the area between the mouth of the Whangpoo and Pootung point, a Japanese military spokesman declared yesterday morning.

Between four and five thousand Chinese troops, the spokesman said, are guarding the line between Kiao-chiao and Lungwangmiao fort, and between Chuansha and Pailien' har-hour, The first line, he said, runs north-west from Kiaochiao while the latter line runs directly west from Chuansha, Between Tungkow and Pootung Point, the spokesman asserted, there are three or four thousand Chinese defending a line facing the Whangpoo.

Still another line facing the north, the spokesman said, runs from Tungkow eastward. Three or four thousand Chinese are also comcentrated in this line, he asserted. Other Chinese units, he added, are spread out in the intervening areas,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account