CHINESE OFFENSIVE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1941, Page 6

CHINESE OFFENSIVE

OPENED ON WIDE FRONT WEST OF SHANGHAI JAPANESE SPOKESMAN’S ADMISSION. ALL ATTACKS SAID TO HAVE BEEN REPULSED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) SHANGHAI, August 29. A Japanese Army spokesman admitted that General Chiang Kai-Shek’s forces opened an offensive on August 26 on a 150 miles front west of Shanghai, along a line south of Hangchow to Wuhu, on the Yangtse. The spokesman asserted that all Chinese attacks had been repulsed. ANOTHER STORY FOUR IMPORTANT CITIES TAKEN. JAPANESE USING GAS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.0 p.m.) CHUNGKING,' August 29. A Chinese Military Council communique issued today says that Japanese troops used gas against the Chinese offensive near Nanchang. The communique states that Chinese armies in Fukien, Chekiang. Kiangsi, Kiangsu and Anwhei provinces launched a general offensive on August 25, surprising the Japanese garrisons in the key cities of all five provinces. It is claimed that the Japanese were thrown into disorder and that the Chinese recaptured four important cities.