HEAVY DEFEAT
I INFLICTED ON JAPANESE ACCORDING TO CHUNGKING REPORT. FIGHTING IN THE MOUNTAINS OF SHANSI. i (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright! ; CHUNGKING, May 21. The Chinese claim to have broken through the Japanese encirclement of their positions in the mountains of southern Shansi and to be effecting a counter encirclement. Severe fighting is continuing in the area where the Japanese a fortnight ago launched an offensive aiming to oust the Chinese, who have long been entrenched in the mountains. Semi-official dispatches declare that the Japanese casualties are heavy. Truckloads of wounded are being sent eastward daily. The Chinese Government announced that the Chinese have recaptured Chuki. in Chekiang Province, inflicting 400(1 Japanese casualties. The Japanese are retreating northward from Chuki.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 May 1941, Page 5
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119HEAVY DEFEAT Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 May 1941, Page 5
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