Yangtze, Oct. 1.
How five Japanese army privates navigated the mine-Infested Yangtze at night in a water-logged sampan, thereby to play a major part in the Japanese capture "of the vaunted [Tienchiacheng forts, was told here today.
The five men, led by a Second 5 Lieutenant are already on their way to rejoin their unit after receiving profuse thanks from their comrades-in-arms of the navy.
Following the capture of Fuchikou, fortified area on the south bank of the Yangtze, halfway between Matouchen and Tienchiacheng, Japanese staff officers inspecting the Jabandoned documents at a Chinese. headquarters ran into a detailed map of the Tienchiacheng forts. Realizing its importance to the naval ordered to carry out the mission. He asked for volunteers. Top Pri-vote Susumu Kewagoe, and Sukefoshi "Mizuno, Masaji Matsuda, /Toyoki Honda, and Shibata, privates first-class, answered the summons.
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