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INFLICTED ON JAPANESE GREATEST VICTORY OF WAR. CLAIMED BY CHUNGKING. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) CHUNGKING, April 5. The Minister of War, Ho Ying-Chin, said today that the Chinese victory in Kiangsi Province last week was the greatest victory of the war. The Chinese military spokesman said that onethird of the 56,000 Japanese troops engaged were wiped out. The Chinese central news agency report today in Hong Kong that Chinese forces are approaching Nanchang. Japan’s main army base in northern Kiangsi. The agency said that the Chinese are pursuing the Japanese alter the recapture of Wanshoukung and Sishan. near Nanchang.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 April 1941, Page 5
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100HEAVY DEFEAT Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 April 1941, Page 5
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