Peiping, Oct. 3.
After a battle lasting two days, Japanese troops this afternoon captured the walled city of Tehchow, Shantung, sixty miles north of the Yellow River, according to a communigué issued by the Japanese military authorities.
Entrenched in a strong line of earthworks in front of Tehchow, the Chinese offered obstinate resistance to a series of frontal attacks, but hastily "abandoned their defences when the main Japanese force suddenly appeared to the east of the city after a flanking march, During the battle, a Japanese plane piloted by Lieutenant Sugi-more made a daring landing between the Chinese and Japanese lines only half a mile from Tehchow.
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