CHINA celebrated the 70th anniversary of the victory over fascism in the Far East with a mass military parade yesterday.
Ten formations of soldiers marched through Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in honour of 10 heroic units that fought in the Sino-Japanese war of 1937-1945.

One commemorated the five heroes of Mount Langya, who threw themselves off a cliff rather than surrender to encircling Japanese troops after holding off an offensive in September 1941.

Another paid tribute to a company of troops who used their bayonets to repel a Japanese attack during the communist-led Hundred-Regiment Campaign of 1940.