Paoting, Sept, 12.
Under cover of a heavy barrage of guns Japanese infantry units at Chuanhu, west of Peiping, launched a series of attacks on Chinese positions at Shaochishan on September 8, according to a belated military report received here yesterday.
Offering stiff resistance Chinese defenders succeeded in repulsing the invading troops after inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy forces. Three heavy machine-guns together with many other war weapons were seized by Chinese troops.
The gallantry of one of the Chinese battalions defending the strategic point was revealed in the report. With only a few survivers, the entire Two huge columns of smoke r vicinity of the Markham Road Railway Yard, and North yesterday north of the Soochow Creek, from Thibet
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