FAR EAST WAR
JAPANESE AND CHINESE LOSSES. CHINA TRAINING MILLIONS OF MEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) CHUNGKING, July 8. General Chiang Kai-Shek declared in his speech on the third anniversary of tne Sino-Japanese war that 1.G00,000 Japanese had been killed or wounded since the war began. Yesterday the Japanese claimed to have killed more than 1.500,000 Chinese, and gave their own losses as only 85,000. The Chinese War Minister declared that whereas China had 2,000,000 troops at the start of the war, she now had 5,000.000, and several millions more were being trained. MURDER IN PEKING. CHINESE JOURNALIST’S FATE. PEKING, July 9. Mr Wu Chu-chih. aged 31, chief editor of the "Hsin Min Pao,” the official organ of the North China Government. was assassinated by an unknown gunman in the Chinese city on Sunday night. No arrests have been made, lie was shot twice in the head.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19400710.2.51
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1940, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
146FAR EAST WAR Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1940, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in