The Archive · 1937

Huge Booty Taken

NEAR NANKING

Japanese Give List of Captured War Material Hundreds of guns, aeroplanes, tanks lorries were 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: six large aeroplanes, ten tanks, 36 trucks, 108 heavy guns, 19 feld and mountain guns, 79 trench mortars, 37 antiaircraft guns, seven anti-aircraft machine-guns, 19 Stokes' mortars, 411 machine-guns and 956 light machineguns, Also taken were 9,334 rifes, 115 pistols, 77,850 hand grenades, 8,216 rounds of heavy gun ammunition. 1,026 rounds of field-gun ammunition, and 62,572 trench-mortar shells-

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