DEFEATED TROOPS
JAPANESE SEEK RELIEF
(Rec. 11 a.m.) RUGBY, October 3. British newspapers display considerable interest in the reports of the big Chinese successes in the region of Changsha, from which town the Japanese now admit that their forces have withdrawn. . Competent observers express the opinion that the Japanese offensive against the Chinese in Honan is designed more to relieve the pressure on the troops defeated at Changsha than to the reason.given in the semi-official statement—that it is part of the same campaign to obtain possession of the Hankow-Canton railway.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 83, 4 October 1941, Page 9
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90DEFEATED TROOPS Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 83, 4 October 1941, Page 9
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