The spirit and courage of a "dare-to-die" unit which succeeded in blowing up a Chinese pill-box dẹ- fence which had held up the Japanese advance in the sector to the west of Liuhong, was extolled in a lenge thy article published in yesterday morning's edition of the "Shanghai United News."
"For a number of days," the paper said, "the pill-box had been a source of worry to the Japanese who were eager to oust the Chinese from their defences behind the fortification.
"It became absolutely necessary," the journal added, "for the Japanese to silence the three heavy machine guns mounted in the pill-box.
"On October 17," the paper said, "the commander of the Japanese units in this sector decided to or-Banize a dare-to-die' squad to blow up the pill-box with high explosives. He asked for volunteers.
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