MANY DEFEATS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1942, Page 3

MANY DEFEATS

INFLICTED ON JAPANESE IN CHINA INVADERS EXECUTING PUPPET TROOPS. TERRIBLE FAMINE IN HONAN. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) CHUNGKING, December 28. Chinese routed the Japanese force occupying Hysihui, eighty miles east of Hankow, while successful operations against the Japanese are continuing in the Yantze valley, reports the United Press correspondent. The Japanese ■were forced out of Hysihui after occupying it for three days. The Japanese garrison at Tsefushu, 150 miles southwest of Hankow, suffered heavy casualties when the Chinese carried out a night attack. Brief Japanese sorties in western Hupeh were repulsed and a Japanese depot at Hingcheng was destroyed. Repeated attacks by Chinese guerillas have obstructed Japanese efforts to L>uild new roads and airfields in Hainan. Chinese guerillas report that a large number of Chinese' puppet troops have been executed in North China for “dangerous thoughts” or communications with bandits. The Japanese called the latest purge a purification. Famine conditions are growing worse in Honan province. Families arc exchanging girls for millet or wheat and some people are eating grass, tea leaves and tree bark.