CHINESE SUCCESS
COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
DETACHMENTS WIPED OUT
(Received October 3, 10.30 a.m.) HANKOW, October 2. The Chinese, in a powerful counteroffensive, launched from Wuning, annihilated two Japanese detachments, killing 3000. A Tokio report states that the Japanese estimate that the Chinese casualties for a fortnight's fighting at Tienchiacheng were over' 30,000, including 5000 dead, who were left on the battlefield.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 81, 3 October 1938, Page 8
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59CHINESE SUCCESS Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 81, 3 October 1938, Page 8
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