BATTLES FOR HANKOW
JAPANESE CLAIM PROGRESS MAIN DRIVE CHECKED. CHINESE COUNTER-ATTACKING IN STRENGTH. (Recd This Day, 9.55 a.m.) TOKIO, September 14. The Japanese claim to have captured Matouchen, on the southern bank of the Yangtse, breaking the Chinese third defence line, but the most direct drive to Hankow is checked at Kwangtsi where 40,000 Chinese are counterattacking. AN OFFICIAL REPORT. JAPANESE SUFFER DEFEAT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Chinese Consul has received the following cablegram from Hankow: — “The Japanese, advancing by way of the Yangtse River have suffered defeat and have made no progress.. "They have been reinforced in East. Honan and planned an advance westward and the capture of Sinyang and from thence a march southward to Hankow. At present there is severe fighting at Taolinpoo and Whangakangsze, fifty kilometres east of Whangchuen. The Chinese positions remain intact at these two places. “South of the Yangtse the Japanese repeatedly attacked Shikuling, near Singtze, but all the Japanese attacks were repulsed.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 September 1938, Page 8
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