It has been ascertained that the Japanese troops operating in the region of Sootsun to the north-west of Lotien belong to the First and Second Regiment of the Garrison Force of Northern Formosa, according to the spokesman. Others operating in the vicinity of Yangchiatsun are. from Manchuria, he said.
Four thousand Japanese troops landed yesterday afternoon at the O.S.K. Wharf, where five Japanese transports were moored alongside, the spokesman said. Japanese reinforcements which arrived here in the past week were estimated by the spokesman to be 40,000 strong.
Despite heavy damage from bombs and shells, the North Railway Station is still occupied by Central Government troops behind sandbags and barbed wire, Left, the freight shed and main station building as seen from Boundary Road which is littered with debris. Right, the large Administration Building, showing comparatively little damage; the lower floors are heavily sandbagged. A Japanese plane circling over the area when the photographs were being taken was greeted with a sputter of machine-gun fire, Where the Tin Hat is
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