CHINESE CLAIM

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 91, 19 April 1939, Page 9

CHINESE CLAIM

i X ADMINISTRATIVE 9fe^ CONTROL 61} P.C. OF INVADED . ; PROVINCESCHIANG CONFIDENT, (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright)} (Received April 19, 12.45 p.m*)J j LONDON, April 1& " A Chungking message states that the Chinese officially claim to have the administrative control of 61^ per cent, of the nine provinces which the Japanese invaded, compared with; 7-J per cent, under Japanese control and 31 per cent, under joint control* General Chiang Kai«shek scouts the possibilities of peace between Japan and China, and declares that Japan will be reduced to a secondclass Power and will be unable to withstand the strain of warfare

Shanghai reports that the Japanese* claim to have occupied Kuling.

The Tokio correspondent of "The Times" says that the Japanese have Occupied Putsinhwa, south-east of Nartchang, where they are pushing oa after having crushed the Chinese under! General Lo Cho-ying.

The Japanese claim to have killed 3500 Chinese during an offensive south of the Yangtze-kiang. Confused batGea are raging elsewhere.

The Japanese assert that Bussiaa artillerymen are helping the Chinese offensive in South Hansi.