CHINESE GAINS
IN NEW OFFENSIVE
Japanese Reported To Have Used Gas Rec. 2.30 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 29. A Chinese Military Council communique from Chungking states that to-day Japanese troops used gas against the Chinese in an offensive near Nanchang.
It is said that Chinese armies in the Fukien, Chekiang, Kiangsi, Kiangsu and anwhei provinces launched a general offensive on August 25, surprising the Japanese garrisons in key cities. All five provinces claimed that the Japanese were thrown into disorder. The Chinese have recaptured four important cities. The Japanese army spokesman at Shanghai admitted that Chiang Kaishek's forces had opened an offensive on a 50-mile front west of Shanghai, along a line south of Hanchow to Wuhu, on the Yangtse River. The spokesman asserted that all the Chinese attacks had been repulsed. The Foreign Office has announced that China and Canada have agreed to exchange diplomatic missions
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 205, 30 August 1941, Page 7
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