Caption from photographic print Forman 1750: Still smoking ruins of Mafang strong point, one of 13,000 such destroyed in North China in the last year of the war by Chinese Communists. Caption from Xi xing man ying: Mofang [Mafang] strong point, typical of the thousands of fortresses erected by the Japs to try to hold their North China conquests, this one like thirteen thousand others, was destroyed by the 8th Route army. In the foreground, one of three concentric defensive ditches and the remains of the drawbridge which spanned it.
