CHINESE DRIVE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 January 1942, Page 4

CHINESE DRIVE

INTO CANTON SUBURBS JAPANESE IN CHANGSHA AREA. TAKING FURTHER HEAVY PUNISHMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) CHUNGKING, January 9. An Army communique states that two Chinese columns are driving into the northern and northeastern suburbs of Canton. Fighting is progressing. Further heavy punishment has been inflicted on the Japanese retreating from the Changsha region. ANOTHER ATTACK ON CAPITAL OF KIANGS?. JAPANESE SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES. (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) CHUNGKING, January 9. Chinese troops attacked and penetrated the outer defences of Nanchang, the Japanese-occupied capital of Kiangsi, and inflicted heavy casualties on the Japanese. VALUABLE PART PLAYED BY CHINESE ARMY. MAY DRIVE BACK INVADERS. (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) RUGBY, January 9. The importance of the Chinese Army in the general Allied warfare against the Japanese, which is seen in the dispatch of Chinese ( troops to Burma, is further underlined by the latest success at Changsha, where they evidently took good advantage of the Japanese preoccupation on the southern friont, .It is also thought that they may have a chance to fight the Japanese troops on- more equal terms since heavy, modern Japanese equipment may be directed to the southern expeditions. The weekly newspaper “Economist’ says the Chinese “won a victory of considerable importance at Changsha. A Japanese force estimated at between 60,000 and 100,000 has been forced to retire towards its base at Yochow, but a high proportion have been trapped by the Chinese attacking its flanks. Adopting a strategy which served them well on former occasions, the Chinese permitted the attacking forces to advance until they had reached the suburbs of the threatened town and then attacked in strength on either side of the enemy. There is a strong possibility that General Chiang Kai-shek’s armies, supplied with arms, could roll back the Japanese invader as devastatingly as the armies of Stalin are turning the Germans out of Russia.”