CHINA’S TRIUMPH
Six Weeks’ Results Summed Up JAP PLANS AWRY (British Olllcial Wireless.) (Received September 4, 7 p.m.) RUGBY, 'September 3.
The Chinese spokesman in London said today that the Chinese Army, fighting for the first time with some air support, had in the past six weeks recaptured about 20 towns in the eastern provinces of Chekiang and Kiangsi. The area recaptured includes aerodromes situated about ' 600 miles from Japan. The Chinese, he said, now hold 230 miles of the Chekiang-Kiangsi railway, ; preventing the Japanese from operating the ShanghaiSingapore railway.
The Chinese High Command reports that severe fighting is going on near Kinhwa. Enemy reinforcements have been brought up and the first big clash is taking place on the outskirts of the city. The Chinese have recaptured Lupa. Several important towns on the Kiangsu-Anhwei border have been reoccupied by Chinese guerrillas. Many Chinese puppet troops have deserted the Japanese and joined the Chinese army. At one town alone 800 puppet troops revolted and killed their Japanese overlords.
The military spokesman in Chungking said that the Japanese were concentrating troops at Hankow.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 290, 5 September 1942, Page 7
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181CHINA’S TRIUMPH Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 290, 5 September 1942, Page 7
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