IMPORTANT SUCCESS
CLAIMED BY JAPANESE IN CHINA TWENTY-SIX DIVISIONS ROUTED. STORY OF ELABORATE TRAP. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 10.35 a.m.) TOKIO. May 14. The Japanese army in Central Chinaclaims to have routed twenty-six Chinese divisions and two brigades as the result of the May offensive against the main bodj’ of the Chinese in the fifth (Hupeh) war zone. The Japanese are advancing towards the next offensive, keeping parallel with the fleeing enemy and mopping up stragglers. • The success, which enables the Japanese to retain the Wuhan cities,- was the result of enticing the Chinese towards a line east of Peking on the Hankow railway, 80 miles north-west of Hankow, entrapping them near Anlu, penetrating the Chinese defences north-west of Tsaoyang. which was captured, outflanking a large number and cutting off their retreat, and the cutting of communications between the first and fifth war zones.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 May 1939, Page 5
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