CHINESE CLAIM
Japanese War Losses
CHUNGKING, January 2.
According to the Chinese army spokesman, Japan’s losses in 30 months totalled 1,404,400 men, of whom 585,760 were killed or wounded. Disease killed or incapacitated the remainder.
The spokesman added that Japan was maintaining an army of 1,650,000. Conscription had resulted in a drop of one-third in the 1939 agricultural output. Japan’s rice shortage alone was’ 8-57,000 tons.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 85, 4 January 1940, Page 8
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