The Archive · 1937

More Vielims in Local War

'The bodies of five Chinese were' removed 10 the Kiaochow Road Park fon Nov, 1 and an inquest was.con-dueted over them by the Settlement Chinese court "oMlicials. Two of the deceased were Chinese soldiers of the 88th Division who were among the killed when they withdrew from the Joint Savings Bank godown in Chapet carly on October 31. One of the soldiers' bodies was' found at $30 am. on the barbed wire in front of betises adjoining the Chapel Yank godown, at the corner of North Thibet Road and North Soochow Road. It bore several bayonet wounds, police testified. The other soldiers, identined by Yang Ching-yn, aged 30, was killed by Japanese gunfire, "Of the remaining deceased. tone was killed by a stray bullet at Tsu Ka Jan on October 30 and another succumbed on October 30 afier being burned by an. incen~ diary bomb in Myburgh Read October 22.

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