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JAPANESE OFFENSIVES FIGHTING IN CHINESE AREAS. A COSTLY FAILURE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) CHUNGKNIG, February 25. A communique states that the Japanese are pressing local offensives on four sections in the Yangtze valley and far to the south-west, all of which have been held up or turned back. Chinese artillery and air bombing turned a Japanese attempt to cross the Yangtze in the central Hupeh area into a costly failure. In Western Hupeh the Chinese defeated a Japanese attempt to advance from Tangyang. The Chinese routed a Japanese column north-westward of Kaoan in the Yunnan district. A Japanese attempt to advance on the north-west bank of the Salween River- was hurled back.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 February 1943, Page 4
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