JAPANESE OFFENSIVE
FIERCE FIGHTING IN CHINA HEAVY LOSSES REPORTED ON BOTH SIDES. COUNTER-ATTACKS SUCCEED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) CHUNGKING, February 26. Using 10,000 troops, supported by tanks and planes, the Japanese are pressing their offensive in Central Hupeh, westward of Hankow, a Chinese communique states. Losses are heavy on both sides. After three days the battle is still raging near Futienshu. In North Kiangsi a fierce Chinese coun-ter-offensive turned the Japanese back north-west of Kaoah. The retreating Japanese were then intercepted by Chinese operating behind the Japanese lines.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1943, Page 3
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