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REGARDING JAPANESE OPERATIONS THE TIENTSIN SITUATION. STATEMENT ANTICIPATED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.58 a.m.) RUGBY. June 27. The Prime Minister, Mr Neville Chamberlain, was unable to give any new information in the House of Commons today on the Tientsin situation. He said that details of the Japanese operations at Foochow and Wenchow were being awaited. It is anticipated in Parliamentary circles that Mr Chamberlain will make a statement on Tientsin tomorrow. The statement published yesterday that Mr S. Gilman, of the Empire Hotel, Masterton, was a brother-in-law of Mr Cecil Davis, who has been figuring in incidents associated with the Japanese blockade at Tiefntsin is incorrect. Mr Gilman is not Mr Davis's brother-in-law. YUANCHU RECOVERED FIVE THOUSAND JAPANESE’ CASUALTIES. ACCORDING TO CHINESE REPORT. (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) CHUNGKING, June 27. The Chinese report that their coun-ter-attack at Yuanchu, which the Japanese had occupied, resulted in 5,000 Japanese casualties, followed by a retreat.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 June 1939, Page 5
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