CHINESE CLAIMS
DENIED BY JAPANESE. POSITION IN CENTRAL AREA. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. TOKIO, October 16. The War Office derides Chinese claims? to victories in Central China, and claims that the Japanese have taken all fortified positions in the Chinese ninth zone, including the mountains south of Kiukiang between the Hupeh and Kiangsi provinces. A semi-official report from Shanghai states that the Japanese assert that Russians manned at least one of the raiding bombers on Hankow on October 14. The bodies of two Russians were found in the wreckage of a Sov-iet-built bomber. A second Sovietbuilt bomber was brought down outside Japanese territory. A Daventry report states that the Chinese claim to have taken Hangchow. the treaty port, yesterday after an attack lasting all night, during which they took many prisoners and a munition dump.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1939, Page 5
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