NORTH CHINA FRONT
GAINS MADE BV JAPANESE CHINESE FORCES HEAVILY OUTNUMBERED. TOWN LOST AFTER SEVERE STREET FIGHTING. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) CHUNGKING, April 27. Japanese successes in the battle in the Taihan Mountains, one of the most important Chinese strongholds on the North China front, are admitted in a Chinese communique which states that the Japanese entered Linhsien in a drive from the east. The Japanese also took four towns in a drive from the west.
Outnumbered 10 to one, the Chinese evacuated Linhsien after severe street fighting. The Japanese advance had the advantage of aerial support. The Chinese attempted a counter-attack from the real’ and also executed a tank movement, intending to cut off the retreat of the Jananese columns pushing into the mountains from the west. So far, a Japanese attack from the south on the mountain range west of the Peking-Hankow railway has been repulsed. In one battle, 700 Japanese were killed.
The Chinese said that enemy troops in south-western Shansi fired gas shells causing bleeding from the nose.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 April 1943, Page 3
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