Yet actually no fighting was done inside the city, the Chinese just walking out. A fight took place at the northwest corner of the city, I was told, the Japanese losing perhaps 100 men.. But that was all the fighting at Kaifeng, The Japanese pressed on to Chungmou, half way to Chengchow, apparently in haste to get to Chengchow before the damaged Yellow River dykes were cut. But they were not successful and at Chungmou the flood caught them. For some days their men were locked up in Chung-mou city walls while the flood water swirled round them. Undoubtedly the Japanese lost some men in the flood and a quantity of mechanized equipment which could not be got out. But this could not have been great because less than a full division took Kaifeng and only part of this force pressed on to Chungmou,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.