Hukow, July 5.
Approximately 1,000 Chinese soldiers Jheeing from Hukow to the west. sampans, were subjected to a point blank barrage of Japanese artillery jeerly this morning.
Twenty-nine of the 30 junks in which the Chinese sought io scape. were destroyed. Those who survive the. fire, were mostly drowned—- Domei, Importance of Hukow Shanghai, July 6.
Moral and strategic Importance was attached yesterday by a Japanese military spokesman to the capture on Monday evening of Hukow.
The occupation of the town, achieved through the close co-opera tion of the Japanese Army and the Navy and their respective air
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