FLOODS & WAR
JAPANESE CHANGING PLANS IN CHINA MANY ROUTES OF ADVANCE CLOSED. CHINESE COUNTER-ATTACKING. (By Telegraph —Press Association. Copyright.) LONDON, June 19. The ‘'Daily Telegraph’s” Shanghai correspondent says the floods will have a major effect on the war. The Japanese high command is forced drastically to change its plans, because its northern communications are cut. 'Mechanical columns are bogged and brought to a standstill, confining the offensive against Hankow to the Yangtse valley, which itself is in danger of foundation. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek can much more easily conduct a defence against this single line of attack. One-third of Kiukian is already submerged. Roads and railways essential to the original Japanese plan of envelopment are inundated for scores of miles. The Chinese are taking advantage of the situation and successfully counter-attacking. The slow waters have compelled the Japanese to withdraw from the Peiping-Hankow Railway, while the highways to.Tencheny, another objective, are also threatened. The Lung .Hai district is impassable. The maximum floods are expected in July and August.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1938, Page 10
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