DESPERATE EFFORT
JAPAN POURING TROOPS INTO CHINA HOPES STAKED ON MASS OFFENSIVE., MARSHAL CHIANG KAI-SHEK'S DECLARATION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. January 23. The Hong Kong correspondent of the “Daily Herald" says that Japan is preparing for a desperate effort to crush China, and is pouring in enormous reinforcements. Her armies are being stationed for a mass offensive on all fronts, supported by air bombings of all cities, irrespective, of size. Meanwhile General Chiang Kai-shek declares that Japan is increasingly embedding herself in the quagmire and that China's victory is daily nearer. His appeal for additional men and money was met with a nation-wide response. GAINS AND CASUALTIES. WAR MINISTER’S ESTIMATES. (Independent Cable Service.) TOKIO, January 22. The Minister of War, General Itagaki, told the Diet that the territory which Japan had so far occupied in China was twice the area of the Japanese Empire. He estimated the Chinese casualties since the outbreak of the war at 2,000,000, of whom more than 800,000 were dead. About 51,000 Japanese had been killed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1939, Page 5
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