BATTLES IN CHINA
JAPANESE COUNTER-ATTACK IN SUCHOW AREA Initial Successes Claimed CHINESE REPORT ENCIRCLEMENT OF ENEMY COLUMNS
By Telegraph —Press Association. —Copyright. (Recd This Day, 12.15 p.m.) SHANGHAI, May 8. The Chinese and Japanese confirm the launching of an extensive Japanese counter-attack, despite tropical storms, on the Suchow front. The Japanese, who claim initial successes, are delivering secondary offensives in the Kaingsu Province and also in the Nanking area, resulting in the occupation of Chachsien. The Chinese claim that two Japanese detachments, respectively 4,000 and 8 000 strong, are encircled between Taeirhchwang and Tancheng and face annihilation. The Chinese are delaying the resumption of their general offensive in the hope that the Japanese artillery will be bogged in the mud.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 May 1938, Page 8
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