FIERCE FIGHTING
SOME PARTS OF CHINA
REVOLT BY COMMUNISTS
JAPANESE REPORT
(Rec. 9 a.m.) SHANGHAI, May 15
Fierce fighting is reported to be in progress in several parts of China. According to the Domei news agency Japanese forces in the Shansi Province annihilated . the Chinese seventh, twelfth, and thirty-fourth divisions in the course of an encircling movement which trapped 200,000 Chinese.
A Chungking communique admits that the Japanese, in the Kwangtung Province, recaptured the town of Waichow on the Tungkiang River. Other Japanese are reported to have entered Fasyuen, the first major town north of Canton, but are said to have been driven out quickly. There has been
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 114, 16 May 1941, Page 8
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108FIERCE FIGHTING Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 114, 16 May 1941, Page 8
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