Hannibal's Patent Infringed in Shanghai War Emulating Hannibal in the Puni?) Wars, Japanese troops at the front have been using bovine strength in charging the Chinese lines, after their mechanical weapons had failed to shake the strong Chinese defence, said a Chinese report last night.
The difference between the tactics of the great Carthaginian general and his modern imitators, however, was that while Hannibal used ele-pliants, the Japanese were forced to be content with some scores of milch cows which they had previously looted from Chinese farmhouses.
These dumb animals, it was re-orted, were driven toward the hinese lines as cannon fodder to cover a half-hearted infantry attack launched by the Japanese yesterday evening against the Chinese positions at Liuhang and Kuochiache.
The bovine charge, however, ended in a complete fiasco. Not only were many of these beasts mowed down by Chinese machine-gun fire and five captured, but large numbers of Japanese troops were also killed and wounded when they approached, behind the tows.
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