The Archive · 1938

Many Holiday Accidents

Yesterday as death took its annual Two hundred people were Mid New York, st.

Memoria! Day toll Of this. total, 140 deaths occurred as a result of motor accidents. On the same day last year the toll was 356 killed, or about fifty per cent, over that of this year.—H tion of Pohsien, 50 kilometres south of Kweiteh and about 45 kilometres north-west of Kowyang, disclosed that the walled town was taken by the Akashida and Kurisu detachments on Monday afternoon, 24 hours after the capture of the east gate.

For a time Chinese troops offered stiff resistance to the Japanese forces attacking the town wall, which is two metres thick and six metres high.

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