TOWN IN SUIYUAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1943, Page 3

TOWN IN SUIYUAN

TAKEN BY CHINESE FORCES. CONSIDERABLE JAPANESE LOSSES. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day. 10.50 a.m.) CHUNGKING. August 9. A Chinese communique announces that Chinese forces have recaptured Chipuyaotizc, in Suiyuan Province. The Japanese suffered considerable losses before they were forced to withdraw.

stands, it is stated. One met lus Waterloo when he attacked a driver at 6 o’clock last night. He was struck a heavy blow on the face with a jackhandle, and was in a sorry slate when a patrolman advised him to move on. “It almost amounts to a war at present," said a taxi-stand manager. “These service men hunt only in packs, as they are not worth 2d by themselves. It is all very well to pander to sentiment, but we don’t want gangsterism and lawlessness introduced here. There are some very low-type women keeping company with them, and they use filthy language when they ring up late at night and cannot get a cab. They indulge freely in abuse and obscenities. It looks as if things are getting completely out of control.” He added that he realised that the powers of the civil police in dealing with these service men were somewhat circumscribed.