Artillery shells screaming over the waters of Paohuchiao Bay in northeastern Hainan brought to an end the careers of scores of Chinese guerillas fleeing from a Japanese naval and military pincer movement in the north-eastern portion of the island on Saturday.
Driven out of Linwu early on Saturday morning by a surprise attack by a Japanese naval landing party, the Chinese fled northwards towards Paohuchiao only to encounter, at abet 4 o'clock the same afternoon, a Japanese army detachment operating in the area.
The Chinese, taken unawares, were badly beaten, © Abandoning more than 100 dead, as Well as machine guns and rifles, they fled to-Paohuchiaokang where they boarded junks to flee to the mainland.
A Japanese mountain gun battery then opened fire on the junks, destroying all but a few that managed to escape—Domei.
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