HEAVY LOSSES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1942, Page 3

HEAVY LOSSES

SUFFERED BY JAPANESE IN CHINA OVER FIFTY THOUSAND DEAD AND PRISONERS. , RECENT CHANGSHA BATTLE. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) CHUNGKING, January 29. Announcing that the Japanese lost at least 56,994 dead and prisoners in the Changsha Battle, the Central News Agency says this official compilation is based on the number of bodies counted on the battlefields north of the city. It does not take into account the many bodies cremated by the retreating Japanese. RADIO FACILITIES TAKEN OVER BY THE ENEMY IN SHANGHAI. NAZI PATTERN OF DISTORTION. (Received This Day, 10.0 a.m.) CHUNGKING, January 29. The United Press of America’s correspondent, Mr Martin, who escaped from Shanghai, reports that the Chin-ese-American radio facilities at Shanghai, worth millions in American dollars, have been taken over by German-Jap-anese propagandists, who hourly intercept the Allied dispatches and retransmit garbled versions of them, closely imitating the Nazi patterns of distortion. THAI PROTEST & MASS meetings throughout COUNTRY. AGAINST WAR DECISION. ( (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, January 29. The Rangoon radio says mass meetings throughout Thailand decided to protest to the Government and KingAnanda Mahidol against the declaration of war against the Allies. SIX POINTS CHINA’S URGENT NEEDS. (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) CHUNGKING, January 29. The official army newspaper “Soatangfo” lists a six point aid programme urgently needed from the Allies: Military supplies, railroad materials, machine tools, technical experts, medical and chemical supplies, the abolition of unilateral treaties and the unfreezing of Chinese assets.