WAR IN CHINA
HANKOW REPORTS JAPANESE DEFEAT RECAPTURE OF IMPORTANT ’ POSITIONS. ENEMY ATTACKED IN FRONT & REAR. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The following cablegram from Hankow has been received by the Chinese Consul: — Forty thousand Japanese, following the Juichang-Wuning Highway, attacked the Chinese positions, but after four days’fighting-were defeated. . Southrwest of Shangeheng, the Chinese simultaneously attacked the Japanese both in front and rear and severely defeated them. On the Juichang-Wuning Highway, the Chinese, following up their victory, recaptured Maanshaw, Chukiatong and other important positions; also Shuanchen, which had been in Japanese hands for the last ten months.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1938, Page 6
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