CHINA CLAIMS 1,464.406 JAPANESE CASUALTIES
(Received 3, 12.45 p.m.) CHUNGKING, Jan. 2. According to the Chinese Army spokesman, Japan’s losses in the 30 months of the war have been 1,464,400 men, including 585,760 killed and wounded. Disease killed and incapacitated the remainder. 0 The spokesman added that Japan was maintaining an a', my of 1 680,000. Conscription had resulted in a drop of one-third in the 1939 agricultural output. Japan’s rice shortage alone was 857,000 tons. Japan’s version of the war’s casualties was given on December 29 in an announcement from Imperial Army headquarters. It said that 1,213,462 Chinese soldiers were killed between Tuly 1937 and November 1939. Japanese deaths between October 1933 and December 1939 were 27,000, while 18,000 Japanese were killed and wounded in the Russo-Japanese clash at j Nomoshan, it was claimed.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 3, 4 January 1940, Page 8
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