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Japanese Capture Kinshu Forts in China Frontline Sketch
From the Front reports the Japanese army seized large Chinese forts at Ta-Lien-Whan on November 7 after a brief shelling. Casualties were minimal for Japan and about one hundred for Chinese. The dispatch notes Colonel Kono taking Lokoson redoubt on November 6 and shows Field Marshal Count Oyama entering Kinshu city after its capture with Krupp and Croset guns.
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Fietp Marsu
Count Orama
Kixsmt
Sivan
Ta-Lien-Whan Hay
Lokoson
Kono
Kinshu
Ta-Lien-Whan
Twao Tong
Count Oyama
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