NEW BATTLE PLAN
JAPANESE BID FOR HANKOW Floods Foil Attack from North STRONG CHINESE FORCES HOLDING YANGTSE VALLEY By Telegraph.—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) SHANGHAI, June 21. Foiled by floods in attacking Hankow from the north, the Japanese, reinforced from the Lung-Hai area, are pouring men into the YangtseKiang valley, for a new thrust from the eastwards. Meanwhile they are attempting to break the cross-river booms, the chief of which is at Kiukian, under the guns of Chinese forts. , , Sixty Chinese divisions, comprising 700.000 men, are reorganising the defences at Hankow in a triple ring, of which the third circuit is manned by crack troops. . The Chinese meanwhile are counter-attacking. ... ~ , The Tsienslian floods are swelling the Whai River, in the Anhui valley.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 June 1938, Page 8
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