MOVES IN CHINA
New Japanese Offensives
(Received October 3. 9.50 p.m.) CHUNGKING. October 2. The Jananc.se have launched major drives in the Chekiang. Kiangsi and Anhwei provinces, to where the Chinese are rushing reinforcements. Japan’s new offensives are believed to be aimed at preventing the cstablishinen. of Allied air and submarine bases whicn would threaten the Japanese shipping lanes and Formosa. An earlier message said tnat heavy fighting was in progress in the ,Fu River region in Kiangsi province, where the Chinese, after checking a Japanese advance. launched a determined counternt tack. The Chinese also attacked enemy positions east of Canton, near the Can-ton-Kowloon railway, inflicting heavy casualties. , , , The Chinese have beaten back a Japanese attempt to land troops in launches on the soutfa goast_o£ Canton,
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 7, 4 October 1943, Page 5
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126MOVES IN CHINA Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 7, 4 October 1943, Page 5
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