SERIOUS SETBACK
SUFFERED BY CHINESE. LOSS OF TWO IMPORTANT TOWNS. (By Telegraph,—Press Association—Copyright) CHUNGKING, May 17. A Chinese communique admits the Joss of Chiangkou and Kungang, north-west of Lake Tungting. It adds that more than 1000 Japanese were killed in fierce fighting on the outskirts of Tsing-shih, an important railway centre north-west of Lake Tungting. but the enemy was reinforced and continued the attack. Several hundred Japanese were killed in the Kingmen sector, north of the Yangtise. where the Chinese are making a diversionary attacking effort to relieve the pressure against the Lake Tungting forces. The Chungking correspondent of the United Press of America says that recent advances have given the Japanese control of most of the triangular area between Lake Tungting and the Yanktise. The Japanese are now trying to clear the entire west shore of Lake Tungting.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 May 1943, Page 3
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