Some of the thousands of Chinese soldiers taken prisoner during the fighting around Hsuchow. The photograph was taken in the courtyard of a temple which has been turned into a concentration camp for prisoners, The Chinese were also said to have eft behind two trench-mortars, two heavy machine-guns, five light machine-guns, 100,000 rounds of rifle ammunition. and 2,000 hand-grenades.
Bombed by military and naval planes during the day were Chengchow; Kaifeng: areas south of Lanfeng; Hwalyin, 180 Kims, north lor Nanking: Hwaian, near by, and other towns west of the Tsinpu, 'AL Kaifeng, more than ten trains, tracks and station buildings, as well jas troop concentrations, were bombed on the morning of May 23. Freight cars and Chinese troops near military barracks south-east of Kaifeng were bombed. the afternoon the Chengchow station was bombed and heavily damaged. Chinese troops south of Lanfeng sise were attacked.
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