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Show Chinese Soldiers Freeze to Death 380 Men, Under Siege Atop Manchurian , Mountain, Perish From Cold ' a Br lanhM hMl I SHANGHAI, Jan. 19 Three hundred eighty Chinese soldiers were reported today found frozen to death after be-i be-i lng besieged for two weeks by Japanese troops on a southeastern south-eastern Manchurlan mountain top. could not flee across the Siberian border. Siberia was the escspe a month ago for General Su-Pini Wen and his army In the northwest and gain last week for General Li Tu in I the northeast. Tha Russian policy of I refusing to accede to Japanese de-Imands de-Imands for their extradition made those Chinese revolts sgsinst the iManchukuo government eomparaUve-jly eomparaUve-jly less dangerous. j The Jspsneie themselves were reported re-ported trapped in the s-eglon south of Manchana during their campaign against General Tang. Seventeen 'Japanese were reported slain east of Taihihkiao, a Mukdcn-Dairen railway rail-way station, when 40 of them were surrounded two daya by a Chinese I force. The survivors cut their wey to safety. This was only about 25 I miles from Mount Takushsn, where Ithe Chinese were surrounded. It was in this region that Japan made its first milltsry advance into Manchuria in September, 1931, precipitating pre-cipitating tha league of nations' inquiry in-quiry into the Sino-Jspsneae quarrel land arresting the attention of the -whole world. Chinese report ssld 400 Chinese i were stranded on tha mountain, in-lldicating in-lldicating that possibly 30 escaped. The report of the tragedy, carried in Chinese newspspera, turned at-ij at-ij tention in tha Sino-Japanesc controversy contro-versy back to tha original theater of war. Activities were renewed in that ' area, along the Manchurlan coast south of Mukden, a month ago. The reports ssid Jspsnese scouts found the dead Chinese soldiers still f clasping their rifles at their post on the top of Mount Takushsn, near the coast between Takushsn City and Siuyen, 125 miles south of Mukden. MAKE FINAL STAND The Chinese were hard pressed by Japanese troops and made a final stand on the mountain, repulsing sev-i sev-i eral attacks by the Japanese, the re-' re-' ports said. When the cold weather set In a few weeks ago. there was a lull In the fighting. The Japanese ceased their attacks and waited. In the freezing temperatures at the top of the mountain, the beleaguered Chinese found a new enemy the cold es deadly as the Japanese f sharpshooters When the bodies were found, the reports ssid, they were clad In lightweight light-weight aummer uniforms. These Chinese were described ai remnant of the army of General Tang Tien-Mei. Wide sweeping op eratlons by the Japanese against hii army were carried on in the past month in the. triangle bounded by the Mukden-Dlaren and Mukden-Antun railroads and the coast. Unlike In the other two military offensives conducted by the Japa nese in Manchuria, In the northwest snd northeast. General Tang's troopj |