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SUFFERED BY JAPANESE IN CHINA THOUSAND MEN LOST IN LARGE WARSHIP. SUNK BY CHINESE MINE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) CHUNGKING, June 24. According to the Central News, 1,000 Japanese troops were drowned when a large Japanese warship was sunk by a Chinese mine in (he Yangtse River. The Chinese continue mopping up operations along the Hutu River, with considerable success, says the Associated Press of America. Fighting continues near Swat, with no strategical change. The Japanese garrison of Owchihkow is encircled. The Central News states that because of the heavy drain on manpower resulting from recent reverses in China and other war areas, the Japanese are stepping up forced recruiting of Chinese civilians for labour gangs in Hupeh and Fukien Provinces. The Japanese have drafted all students for military service in Central China, and conscripted all schoolboys of military age in Northern China The Japanese have intensified their efforts to force peasants to grow more cotton, of which Japan is suffering an acute shortage.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1943, Page 4
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