Another staff officer said: "Several Chinese divisions have no field guns, The average is about twelve field guns to a division The party of foreign press correspondents at present visiting the fronts left Shanghai on Friday morning. The plane in which they are travelling is a 1928 seven-seater single-engined camouflaged Fokker monoplane, The party consists of Colonel Matsujiro Kimura, of the Japanese headquarters staff in Central China, Mr. Y. Horiguchi, of Domei, Mr. Elmer W, Peterson, of the Associated Press, Mr, Philip Messalier, of "Lo Petit Parisien," and Reuter's correspondent.
In coming to the Tsinpu front, the foreign correspondents set several records.
The wei the first foreign newspapermen to visit Nanking since the Japanese occupation of the city; They were the first foreign newspapermen to make a tour to the front in a Japanese Army aeroplane; and They were the first foreign correspondents to interview General Shunroku Hata, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese forces in Central China, since he succeeded General Iwane Matsui,
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