STRATEGIC GAIN
CHINESE CLAIM
(Received June 14, 10 a.m.)
CHUNGKING, June 13,
The Chinese report that they have captured strategic towns guarding the Yellow River crossing, and that they repulsed after a battle of a week a Japanese attempt to cross the stream and invade Shensi.
The Minister of War, Ho Ching, states that the Japanese casualties since the outbreak of hostilities exceed 860,000 dead and wounded.
The Japanese have released the British steamer Tseangtah, which was boarded and arrested while proceeding up the river and ordered to return to Tangku, the American., skipper, Captain Van Meter, being taken into custody.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 138, 14 June 1939, Page 11
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101STRATEGIC GAIN Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 138, 14 June 1939, Page 11
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