JAPANESE FAILURE IN CHEKIANG
Severe Fighting Continues (Received September 6, 11.55 p.m.) CHUNGKING, Sept. 5. •A Chinese communique reports that severe fighting continues ou the outskirts of Kinhwa and in nearby Lanchi, with the Chinese steadily gaining the upper hand. Enemy troops in both cities have been reinforced repeatedly, but have failed to break the Chinese cordon and have suffered heavy casualties. The Chinese captured a point south of the railway town of Tuugyang, 70 miles south of Hangchow. The enemy troops fled leaving many killed and wounded. The Central News Agency reports that 21,000 young Chinese men and women were massacred by tlie retreating Japanese in the Chekiang and Kiangsi provinces. Cities in tlie two provinces are heaped with corpses. The Japanese also burnt cities and villages, leaving hundreds of thousands homeless along the Hangchow-Nan-chang railway. The Government is hastening relief to the area.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 291, 7 September 1942, Page 6
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145JAPANESE FAILURE IN CHEKIANG Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 291, 7 September 1942, Page 6
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