WAR IN CHINA
NO MAJOR ACTIVITY REPORTED
(Rec. 11 pan.) CHUNGKING, April 8. The. Japanese . have altered their strategy in China, garrisoning minor points with puppet troops and concentrating their own forces on major positions. Explaining this to a press conference, a Chinese Army spokesman said the Japanese had thus acquired greater mobility for operations which might develop. The spokesman said the enemy’s strength was on the whole unchanged in China, being about 30 divisions.
The spokesman reported that .fighting had occurred in the last week in the provinces of Hupeh, Honan, Hunan, Kwangtung, Anhwei, Chekiang, Shansi, and Shantung,, but it was all of a minor character.
The Japanese unsuccessfully ■ attempted to outflank the Chinese across the Yangtse, . south-wqst, of Shansi. Enemy thrusts north and- west of Slnyang were turned back. Further clashes occurred in Yunnan, near the Burma frontier, in which a large number of the enemy were killed. All the thrusts were thrown back.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23919, 10 April 1943, Page 5
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