CHINESE CLAIMS
CAPTURE OF STRATEGIC POINTS Pressure on Lung-Hai Railway Eased WESTWARD SECTION SAFEGUARDED By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. , (Recd This Day, 1.5 p.m.) s ' SHANGHAI, May 29. In addition to Langfeng, the Chinese claim that they have recaptured Menghsein, Tsinyang, Winhsien and other strategic points on the north bank of the Yellow River, which removes the danger of the Japanese cutting the Lung Hai Railway westwards of Changchow. JAPANESE REPORT. OCCUPATION OF KWEITEH COMPLETED. (Recd This Day, 1.10 p.m.) TOKIO, May 29. The Japanese have completed the occupation of Kweiteh, which deprives the Chinese of the base from which they have been operating in the rear of the Japanese in the Langfeng sector. THOUSAND DEAD. AND THREE THOUSAND INJURED. AIR RAID VICTIMS IN CANTON. (Recd This Day, 1.10 p.m.) CANTON, May 29. The air raid casualties are now a thousand dead and three thousand injured. Flames devastated entire blocks of ruined sections. Hundreds of persons are buried in the smouldering ruins. ■
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1938, Page 8
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