COST IN LIVES
ACTIVITIES IN CHINA
(Independent Cable Service.) (Received January 23, 10 a.m.)
TOKIO, January 22.
The Minister of War, General Itagaki, told the Diet that the territory which Japan had so far occupied in China was twice the area of the Japanese Empire. He estimated the Chinese casualties since the outbreak of the war at 2,000,000, of whom more than 800,000 were dead. About 51,000 Japanese had been killed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 18, 23 January 1939, Page 10
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