FIGHTING IN CHINA
JAPANESE VICTORY
CLAIMED IN SHANSI
(Rec. 2 p.m.) CHUNGKING, May 23
It is announced that the Eighteenth Chinese Red Army is participating in a battle against the Japanese in Southern Shansi.
A Shanghai message quotes the Japanese army spokesman, MajorGeneral Akiyama, as claiming a decisive victory, gaining control of the whole of Southern Shansi north of the Yellow River. Major-General Akiyama admitted that the Chinese recaptured Chuki, in the Chekiang Province, after a voluntary Japanese withdrawal.—U.P.A.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 121, 24 May 1941, Page 10
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