JAPANESE REVERSE
FIGHTING IN SHANSI
CHINESE REPORT SUCCESS
CHUNGKING, May 21
The Chinese claim to have broken through the Japanese encirclement of their positions in the mountains of southern Shansi and to be effecting 8 counter-encirclement. Severe fight* ing is continuing in the area where the Japanese a fortnight ago launched an offensive aiming to oust the Chinese, who have long been entrenched in the mountains.
Semi-official dispatches declare that the Japanese casualties are heavy. Truckloads of wounded are being sent eastward daily. j The Chinese Government announced that the Chinese have recaptured Chuki, in Chekiang Province, inflicting 4000 Japanese casualties. The Japanese are retreating north ware? from Chuki.—U.P.A. MEDICAL AID FOR CHINA RUGBY, May 21. Refining to British relief work in China, the Under-Secretary for For* eign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, answering a question in the House of Commons, said that the matter of increasing medical assistance to China was under consideration.— B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 120, 23 May 1941, Page 8
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