WAR LOSSES
SOME JAPANESE ESTIMATES OVER TWO MILLION CHINESE KILLED. CAPTURES OF kIFLES & GUNS. (Received This Day. 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, May 29. “The Times” Tokio representative says Imperial Headquarters report that 936,345 Chinese dead were counted on the battlefields from the beginning of hostilities to April 30 last, while 59,998 Japanese were killed. The actual number killed is believed to be much larger. The total Chinese casualties are estimated at 2.300,000. The Japanese have captured 215,000 rifles, 330 heavy guns and eleven thousand machine-guns.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1939, Page 5
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84WAR LOSSES Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1939, Page 5
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