The Archive · 1937

Huge Booty Taken Near Nanking

Japanese Give List of Captured War Material Shangral, Dee, 28 Hundreds of guns, aeroplanes, tanks and motor lorries wee included. in the enormous war booty taken by the Japanese troops near Nanking. in the six days Immediately. preceding the capture of the abandoned capital, the Japanese military authorities here announced yesterday.

A detailed list Included: xix large aeroplanes, ten tanks, 36 trucks, 100 heavy guns, 19 Meld' and mountain guns, 79 trench mortars, '37 antiflrcraft guns. seven anti-aircraft machine-guns, 19 Stokes' mortars, 411 machine-guns and 880 Tight machine: uns.

Also taken were 938 ritles, us pistols, 7850 hand grenades, #210 Founds of heavy gun ammtinition, 1,026 rounds of feld-gun ammunition, and 62,572 trench-mortar' shells.

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