WAR IN FAR EAST.
JAPAN AND THE LEAGUE. WITHDRAWAL FROM COMMIS- • SIONS. - GENEVA, October 3. Owing to the League Council’s recognising the possibility • of sanctions against her, Japan has deckled to discontinue collaboration with the League and to withdraw her representatives from the Mandates and Health. Commissions.
OFFICIAL CHINESE REPORT. ...ENEMY'S HEAVY CASUALTIES. WELLINGTON, This Day. The Chinese Concul is in receipt of the following cablegram from Hankow; South of Shangcheng, in Honan, there- has been sanguinary fighting. The enemy launched general offensives one after the other, but all were re- . pulsed, the enemy suffering more than 10,000 losses.. We captured oven ten hills. Realising that their attacks had been fruitless the enemy removed tno troops elsewhere. Oujr air force, which bombed Loslnin, inflicted heavy losses and frustrated the enemy’s retreat to Sinyang. There has been fierce fighting in the Juichang sector, south of the Yangtse river. In an incessant bombardment of our positions the Japanese used gas shells. It appears that fighting will be 'centred, on this sector. During two months’ fighting on the banks of the Yangtse River the Japanese have sustained no less ; than 100,000 casualties.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 305, 6 October 1938, Page 5
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