GREAT VICTORY
CLAIMED BY CHINESE JAPANESE SUFFER 7000 CASUALTIES. BATTLE ON SOUTH BANK OF YANGTSE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) CHUNGKING, March 14. A communique stated that the Japanese suffered 7000 casualties in a sanguinary five-day battle south . of the Yangtse, opposite Ichang. The Central News Agency said it was the greatest Chinese victory since Taierchuan and Chungsha. According to a Hong Kong message, the Chinese Central News agency reported that a Japanese transport loaded with 500 troops and a large quantity of war supplies was sunk after striking a Chinese mine in the Yangtse River. The news agency said that Chinese naval guerillas laid the mine near Tungliu.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 March 1941, Page 6
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