HUPEH BATTLES
JAPANESE ATTACK ON LONG FRONT IMPORTANT SUCCESS CLAIMED. “TWENTY CHINESE DIVISIONS ROUTED.” By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m. LONDON, May 8. The Shanghai correspondent of the “Telegraph” says the Japanese claim that their counteroffensive in Northern Hupeh smashed the Chinese attempt to recapture Hankow.’ The Japanese deployed on an eighty-mile front, between Sinyang and HanJu, and claim to have routed twenty Chinese divisions. RAIDS ON CHUNGKING ALL INHABITANTS FORCED UNDERGROUND. (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) CHUNGKING, May 8. Air raids have forced the remainder of the inhabitants underground.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 May 1939, Page 6
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