RIVAL CLAIMS
HOSTILITIES IN CHINA REMOVAL OF POPULATION FROM CHUNGKING. TWO-THIRDS OF PEOPLE DEPARTING. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 12.45 p.m.) LONDON. March 3. “The Times’' Shanghai correspondent states, that the Chinese claim to have launched an effective counter-attack in Hupeh, but the Japanese report the capture of Khikpw. en route to Shayang. An exlensjve Japanese mopping up campaign in Kainghu resulted in the fall of.Swaiyin, upon 'which 60,000 Chinese troops are reported to be based. The Chungking, authorities are evacuating 300,000 civilians —two-thirds of the population. Official figures of the Kweiyang air raid’ indicate that there were a thousand casualties and damage to an amount, of £5.000.000.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1939, Page 6
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109RIVAL CLAIMS Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1939, Page 6
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